Listen "S5E40 | Who is Putin? And what does he want? "
Episode Synopsis
As Pres. Trump and Pres. Putin meet in Alaska to negotiate a potential peace deal between Russia and Ukraine, I speak with scholars of Russia and ask them these questions: ►Who is Putin? ►What event had the biggest impact on his worldview? ►Is he an ideological man? ►Does he love Russia?►Is he a risktaker? ►Does he fear that Russians will revolt against him? ►Does he want to be remembered in history as Putin the Great? Actually, that would be Vladimir the Great. 🚩About My Guest Scholars:Dr. Kathryn Stoner. I interviewed her in March 2022, shortly after Russia's invasion of Ukraine and while the Covid-19 pandemic was a threat. She was then a scholar at Stanford University and had published an important book, Russia Resurrected: Its Power and Purpose in a New Global Order. Here is our full interview. Dr. Mark Steinberg. I interviewed him in April 2022, when there was talk of overthrowing Putin. Dr. Steinberg is professor emeritus at the Department of History of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has published extensively about Russia, including Voices of Revolution, 1917; The Russian Revolution, 1905-1921; and also Russian Utopia. Here is our full interview. 🚩My Recommendations: ►S2E8: Wars in Ukraine, Dr. David R. Stone ►S2E5: Ukraine's National Identity, Dr. Catherine Wanner►S5E39: Crimea and Crimean Tatars, Dr. Greta Uehling Image Attribution:Vladimir Putin, July 14, 2025. By Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0. Image cropped on its sides to Zoom in on Mr. Putin. 🚩Adel Aalihost & producer☑️Where to find my program:Home:https://historybehindnews.com Spotify:🎧https://bit.ly/HbN-Podcast-Spotify Apple:🎧https://bit.ly/HbN-Podcast-Apple YouTube:▶️https://bit.ly/HbN-YT-Sub Adel on Facebook and X.com🚩Support My Program: 🚩Click here and join our other supporters of the History Behind News podcast. Thank you. 🎵 attribution, links and license for thetheme music in this podcast: The Success by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Scholars in Your Inbox? More than 200 scholar interviews and counting! So don't miss HbN guest scholars’ weekly takes on the history behind our news.
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