In the latest installment of The Historians, Michael Moynihan does a deep dive with Sean McMeekin, the Francis Flournoy Professor of European History and Culture at Bard College, and author of the terrific (and controversial) new book Stalin's War: A New History of World War II. McMeekin is also the author of The Russian Revolution: A New History, July 1914: Countdown to War, and History's Greatest Heist: The Looting of Russia by the Bolsheviks.

Some of the topics discussed by Moynihan and McMeekin:

- Willi Münzenberg, the William Randolph Hearst of communism
- The great Sovietologist Richard Pipes
- Why another WWII book?
- How FDR saved the Soviet Union with Lend Lease
- Moynihan on the repulsive Oliver Stone (Stone responds, followed by Moynihan laughing at his idiotic response)
- Misunderstanding Stalin
- The influence of Soviet sympathizers in media and government 
- Another mention of the film Mission to Moscow
- Should FDR have shunned Stalin?
- Riding on Harley-Davidsons and killing Polish partisans
- Soviet foreign policy aims after Barbarossa
- How western sympathizers processed the Nazi-Soviet pact
- On writing big books
- Did McMeekin get Bard College banned from Russia?

And much more...

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Special Dispatch #89 – The Historians – Sean McMeekin