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Kotkin so far does an excellent job at setting the stage in which young Stalin (Koba) was to be born into. The industrialization of Germany, the increasing size of American industry following the civil war, and the Meiji Restoration all begin to influence global power whilst relatively local changes in the Russian Empire brought in an unimaginable swath of people into its operations.