Yes, it’s three hours, but it is three hours with a first-rate mind. Kotkin is the distinguished and excellent biographer of Stalin. [I’ve read volume one and was very impressed] He is also a careful and lucid speaker with a lot of knowledge of history skillfully knit with present realities. Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 Kotkin is also grounded in-depth on the history of Ukraine, Germany, the Soviet Union, Putin, and Russia. I’ve listened to it (some of it twice) and it has informed me and also changed my mind about several subjects....