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In a fitting inversion of his notorious personality cult, joseph stalin has been vilified with an array of explosive epithets since 1956from tyrant. Naimark s short book is a polemical contribution to this debate. Stanford history professor norman naimark, author of the book stalin s genocides, argues that we need a much broader definition of genocide, one that includes nations killing social classes and political groups. Dec 25, 2011 stalins genocides is a magisterial and admirably lucid analysis of the stalinist terrors that is both totally accessible and finely nuanced in its scholarship. Yet naimark reveals a surprisingly flexible stalin, who initially had no intention of dividing europe. When it comes to use of the word genocide, public opinion has been kinder to stalin than hitler. Stalin, perpetrator of the multiple examples behind the book. He looks at the most consequential and harrowing episodes of stalins systematic destruction of his own populacethe liquidation and repression of the socalled kulaks, the ukrainian famine, the purge of nationalities. Stalins genocides norman m naimark haftad 9780691152387. Norman naimark, stalins genocides by marshall poe and. Dec 25, 2011 norman naimark s extended essay stalin s genocides is both controversial and provocative.
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