Stalin's Genocides [NOOK Book]

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Between the early 1930s and his death in 1953, Joseph Stalin had more than a million of his own citizens executed. Millions more fell victim to forced labor, deportation, famine, bloody massacres, and detention and interrogation by Stalin's henchmen. Stalin's Genocides is the chilling story of these crimes. 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 ...

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Overview

Between the early 1930s and his death in 1953, Joseph Stalin had more than a million of his own citizens executed. Millions more fell victim to forced labor, deportation, famine, bloody massacres, and detention and interrogation by Stalin's henchmen. Stalin's Genocides is the chilling story of these crimes. 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, challenges the widely held notion that Stalin's 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. In this gripping book, Naimark explains how Stalin became a pitiless mass killer. He looks at the most consequential and harrowing episodes of Stalin's systematic destruction of his own populace--the liquidation and repression of the so-called kulaks, the Ukrainian famine, the purge of nationalities, and the Great Terror--and examines them in light of other genocides in history. In addition, Naimark compares Stalin's crimes with those of the most notorious genocidal killer of them all, Adolf Hitler.

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Editorial Reviews

New York Review of Books
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
Times Literary Supplement

Stalin's Genocides is compellingly written, nuanced and powerfully argued.
Foreign Affairs
This is a small book that places a large exclamation point on the most incriminatingly tragic dimension of Soviet history.
— Robert Levgold
History Today
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
Canadian Journal of History
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
European Legacy
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
New York Review of Books - Anne Applebaum
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.'
Foreign Affairs - Robert Levgold
This is a small book that places a large exclamation point on the most incriminatingly tragic dimension of Soviet history.
History Today - Zbysek Brezina
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.
Canadian Journal of History - J. Guy Lalande
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.
European Legacy - Lavinia Stan
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.
Journal of Cold War Studies - Mark Kramer
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.
Time Magazines Literary Supplement
Stalin's Genocides is compellingly written, nuanced and powerfully argued.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781400836062
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • Publication date: 7/19/2010
  • Series: Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Pages: 176
  • Sales rank: 364,028
  • File size: 2 MB

Meet the Author

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".
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Table of Contents

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
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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 8, 2012

    Okay

    Not a book I would recommend. I found it to be rather boring. Not what I expected from it. Basically it deals with the question of genocide and whether Stalin's killings were actually genocide or something else? Does it really matter? Perhaps to someone studying this type of thing. To the average person it probably doesn't mean a whole lot.

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