@article{470593,
      recid = {470593},
      author = {Naimark, Norman M.},
      title = {Stalin's genocides [electronic resource] /},
      publisher = {Princeton University Press,},
      address = {Princeton :},
      pages = {1 online resource (ix, 163 p.)},
      year = {2010},
      abstract = {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. This book is the  chilling story of these crimes. It 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. -- Book  Jacket.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/470593},
}