Stalin's Genocides is a magisterial and admirably lucid analysis of the Stalinist terrors that is both totally accessible and finely nuanced in its scholarship--Naimark's superb work assigns the criminality to Stalin's own bizarre personality as well as the repressive Soviet system. -- Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of "Young Stalin" and "Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar" This book is simply outstanding. Naimark takes the most significant aspect of Stalin's rule--mass terror--and shows how it was applied under Stalin's direct inspiration and, often, his close supervision. It is proof of Naimark's mastery of the subject and superb writing skills that he can provide sharp, gripping sketches of such monumental issues in Soviet history. -- Jan T. Gross, author of "Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland"
Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Chapter 1: The Genocide Issue 15 Chapter 2: The Making of a Genocidaire 30 Chapter 3: Dekulakization 51 Chapter 4: The Holodomor 70 Chapter 5: Removing Nations 80 Chapter 6: The Great Terror 99 Chapter 7: The Crimes of Stalin and Hitler 121 Conclusions 131 Notes 139 Index 155
Norman M. Naimark is the Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor of East European Studies at Stanford University. His books include "Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe" and "The Russians in Germany: A History of the Soviet Zone of Occupation, 1945-1949".
Naimark's short book is a polemical contribution to this debate. Though he acknowledges the dubious political history of the UN convention, he goes on to argue that even under the current definition, Stalin's attack on the kulaks and on the Ukrainian peasants should count as genocide... Perhaps we need a new word, one that is broader than the current definition of genocide and means, simply, 'mass murder carried out for political reasons.' -- Anne Applebaum New York Review of Books Stalin's Genocides is compellingly written, nuanced and powerfully argued. Times Literary Supplement This is a small book that places a large exclamation point on the most incriminatingly tragic dimension of Soviet history. -- Robert Levgold Foreign Affairs Norman Naimark's extended essay Stalin's Genocides is both controversial and provocative... 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. His study is also particularly timely. -- Zbysek Brezina History Today Norman Naimark gives us here in a very condensed form a fine piece of scholarship... After closing the cover of this well-written and powerfully-argued monograph, more than one reader will be left wondering how Stalin was able to achieve such ghastly results. -- J. Guy Lalande Canadian Journal of History Written elegantly and researched impeccably, this volume will be of interest to academic and non-academic audiences alike. It will hopefully prompt other authors to re-evaluate Stalin's mass terror and name it for what it was. -- Lavinia Stan European Legacy Naimark deserves great credit not only for having written a crisp, concise book but also for sparking a discussion that historians far too often are reluctant to have. -- Mark Kramer Journal of Cold War Studies
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