Stalin's genocides [electronic resource] / Norman M. Naimark.
Naimark, Norman M.
2010
DK268.4 .N35 2010eb
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Title Stalin's genocides [electronic resource] / Norman M. Naimark.
Author Naimark, Norman M.
ISBN 9781400836062 electronic bk
9780691147840
Imprint Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2010.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (ix, 163 p.)
Call Number DK268.4 .N35 2010eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 947.084/2
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Series Human rights and crimes against humanity.
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The genocide issue
The making of a genocidaire
Dekulakization
The Holodomor
Removing nations
The Great Terror
The crimes of Stalin and Hitler
Conclusions.

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