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The cold war division of europe was not inevitable. Naimark is the robert and florence mcdonnell professor of east european studies, a professor of history and by courtesy of german studies, and senior fellow of the hoover institution and by courtesy of the freemanspogli institute for international studies. Naimark has been awarded the officers cross of the order of merit by germany. Simon sebag montefiore, author of young stalin and stalin. Naimark s daring effort to redefine several of the crimes committed by stalin s regime in the 1930s and 1940s as acts of genocide is admirable. It can seem as though the cold war division of europe was inevitable.
Norman naimark, one of our most respected authorities on the soviet era, challenges the widely held notion that stalins crimes do not constitute genocide, which the united nations defines as the premeditated killing of a group of people because of their race, religion, or inherent national qualities. Genocide isnt the preserve of fanatics and racist thugs its part of human nature, says stanford historian norman naimark. This lecture summarizes the argument of a forthcoming book suhrkamp, princeton university press that stalin s crimes of the 1930s should be considered genocide. In total, stalin is responsible for the murder of roughly 10 million soviet citizens. Sep 23, 2010 naimark, author of the controversial new book stalins genocides, argues that we need a much broader definition of genocide, one that includes nations killing social classes and political groups. As norman naimark points out in his thoughtprovoking stalin s genocides princeton up, 2010, historians and others have been peculiarly conflicted about this issue. He is robert and florence mcdonnel professor of eastern european studies at stanford university, and a senior fellow at the hoover institution. The chilling story of stalin s crimes against humanity.
Indeed, the subject of stalin s genocides is a contentious one because of the way that it reflects on the russian nationalist project as a whole as well as the legitimacy of leftist attempts at government. The book puts forward the important argument that brutal mass killings under stalin in the 1930s were indeed acts of genocide and that the soviet dictator himself was behind them. Norman naimark, one of our most respected authorities on the soviet era. Ethnic cleansing in twentiethcentury europe and the russians in germany.
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Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading stalins genocides human rights and crimes against humanity book 8. For fifteen years, he was professor of history at boston university and fellow of the russian research center at harvard. Stalins genocides human rights and crimes against humanity book 8 kindle edition by norman m. Norman naimark, stalins genocides by marshall poe and. Yet naimark reveals a surprisingly flexible stalin, who initially had no intention of dividing europe. Peter robinson sits down with naimark to discuss his latest book, genocide.
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