Worth reading this interview with Steve Kotkin:

Must read. My brilliant, acerbic, and truly expert colleague Steve Kotkin. “A Scholar of Stalin Discusses Putin, Russia, Ukraine, and the West” | The New Yorker

This interview with Stephen Kotkin is FANTASTIC: "We think of censorship as suppression of information, but censorship is also the active promotion of certain kinds of stories that will resonate with the people. "