Stalin's Genocides
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. ix, [3], 163, [1] pages. Notes. Index. Ink marks and underlining noted. Norman M. Naimark (born 1944, New York City) is an American historian. He is the Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor of Eastern European Studies at Stanford University, and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He writes on modern Eastern European history, genocide, and ethnic cleansing in the region. Naimark received all of his degrees at Stanford. He taught at Boston University, and was a fellow at Harvard University's Russian Research Center before returning to Stanford as a member of the faculty in the 1980s. Naimark is of Jewish heritage; his parents were born in Galicia. He is a member of the editorial boards of a number of professional journals, including The American Historical Review and. The Journal of Contemporary History. He was awarded the Officers Cross of the Order of Merit by Germany. He may be best-known for his acclaimed study, The Russians In Germany. He wrote in a 2017 essay that genocide is often tied to war, dehumanization, and/or economic resentment. He writes, "if there weren’t other very good reasons to prevent war, the correlation between war and genocide is a good one" More