Norman M. Naimark (; born 1944,

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) is an American

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. He is the Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor of Eastern European Studies at

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, and a senior fellow at the

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. He writes on modern Eastern European history,

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, and

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in the region.

Career

Naimark received all of his degrees at Stanford. He taught at

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, and was a fellow at

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'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

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. He is a member of the editorial boards of a number of professional journals, including ''

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'' and. '' The Journal of Contemporary History''. He was awarded the Officers Cross of the Order of Merit by

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. He may be best-known for his acclaimed study, ''The Russians In Germany''. He wrote in a 2017 essay that

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".

Published works

Books * ''Stalin and the Fate of Europe: The Postwar Struggle for Sovereignty''. (Harvard University Press, 2019). *
Genocide: A World History
'.

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, 2017. * ''A Question of Genocide: Armenians and Turks at the End of the Ottoman Empire''. Oxford University Press, 2011 (Paperback ed. 2012, ). (Editor, together with

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and

Fatma Müge Göçek Fatma Müge Göçek is a Turkish sociologist and professor at the University of Michigan. She wrote the book Denial of Violence in 2015 concerning the prosectution of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, for which she received the Mary Do ...

) *
Stalin's Genocides
(Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity).''

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, 2010. *
Fires Of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing In 20th Century Europe
' (Harvard, 2001)
''The Russians In Germany: The History Of The Soviet Zone Of Occupation, 1945–1949''
(Harvard, 1995) *
Terrorists And Social Democrats: The Russian Revolutionary Movement Under Alexander III
' (Harvard, 1983) * ''The History Of The "Proletariat": The Emergence Of Marxism In The Kingdom Of Poland'', 1870–1887 (Columbia, 1979)

References

External links

HNet review of ''The Russians in Germany: A History of the Soviet Zone of Occupation, 1945-1949.''

* ttp://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=84591082031333 HNet review of ''Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe.''
Interview
with Naimark on "New Books in History."
American Academy in Berlin

Norman M. Naimark: ''Stalin and Europe, 1945–1953''
– Video of a lecture given at the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung in Potsdam on April 14, 2011. {{DEFAULTSORT:Naimark, Norman 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers Living people Stanford University alumni Boston University faculty Harvard Fellows Stanford University Department of History faculty Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 1944 births Writers from New York (state) American male non-fiction writers Genocide studies scholars