Stalin's Genocides

ISBN-13: 9780691152387 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 176 str.

Norman M. Naimark

Opis

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.

O autorze

Norman M. Naimark, geboren 1944 in Kalifornien, Historiker und Politologe; studierte Geschichte in Stanford (B.A.1966, M.A. 1968, Ph.D. 1972), lehrte an der Harvard University; nun Professor für Geschichte am Robert und Florence McDonnell Institut für Osteuropäische Studien und Direktor der Historischen Fakultät der Stanford University, Kalifornien. Naimark, Senior Fellow der Hoover Institution, gilt als Experte für Osteuropäische und Russische Geschichte.