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A volume in princetons series human rights and crimes against humanity, stalins genocides takes a look at the soviet dictators use of mass slaughter in pursuit of total mastery of the ussr, the soviet bloc, and the world. Jan 26, 2012 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. Stalins genocides ebok norman m naimark 9781400836062. Free shipping and pickup in store on eligible orders. When it comes to use of the word genocide, public opinion has been kinder to stalin than. Ethnic cleansing in twentiethcentury europe and the russians in germany. Naimark s short book is a polemical contribution to this debate.
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