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  • John B. Dunlop

  • Norman Naimark, Paul Gregory, Stephen Kotkin
  • Journal:
    Slavic Review / Volume 83 / Issue 1 / Spring 2024
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    19 September 2024, pp. 208-209
    Print publication:
    Spring 2024
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The Cambridge World History of Genocide
  • Volume 3, Genocide in the Contemporary Era, 1914–2020
  • Edited by Ben Kiernan, Wendy Lower, Norman Naimark, Scott Straus
  • Published online:
    23 June 2023
    Print publication:
    04 May 2023
  • Volume III examines the most well-known century of genocide, the twentieth century. Opening with a discussion on the definitions of genocide and 'ethnic cleansing' and their relationships to modernity, it continues with a survey of the genocide studies field, racism and antisemitism. The four parts cover the impacts of Racism, Total War, Imperial Collapse, and Revolution; the crises of World War Two; the Cold War; and Globalization. Twenty-eight scholars with expertise in specific regions document thirty genocides from 1918 to 2021, in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The cases range from the Armenian Genocide to Maoist China, from the Holocaust to Stalin's Ukraine, from Indonesia to Guatemala, Biafra, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda, and finally the contemporary fate of the Rohingyas in Myanmar and the ISIS slaughter of Yazidis in Iraq. The volume ends with a chapter on the strategies for genocide prevention moving forward.

  • Introduction to Volume III

  • Edited by Ben Kiernan, Yale University, Connecticut, Wendy Lower, Claremont McKenna College, California, Norman Naimark, Stanford University, California, Scott Straus, University of California, Berkeley
  • Book:
    The Cambridge World History of Genocide
    Published online:
    23 June 2023
    Print publication:
    04 May 2023, pp 1-28

  • Summary

    In October 1945 the Nazi defendants at Nuremberg were charged, for the first time in international law, with ‘genocide’. The Nuremberg indictments included, under war crimes, ‘deliberate and systematic genocide, viz., the extermination of racial and national groups, against the civilian populations of certain occupied territories in order to destroy particular races and classes of people and national, racial, or religious groups, particularly Jews, Poles, and Gypsies and others’.1

  • 7 - Genocide in Stalinist Russia and Ukraine, 1930–1938

  • from Part I - Racism, Total War, Imperial Collapse and Revolution
  • Edited by Ben Kiernan, Yale University, Connecticut, Wendy Lower, Claremont McKenna College, California, Norman Naimark, Stanford University, California, Scott Straus, University of California, Berkeley
  • Book:
    The Cambridge World History of Genocide
    Published online:
    23 June 2023
    Print publication:
    04 May 2023, pp 162-185

  • Summary

    The mass killing that took place in the Soviet Union in the 1930s was part and parcel of the interlocking Bolshevik projects of state building and the refashioning of society. The process of radically transforming the social, economic and political life of Russia had already begun already under Vladimir Ilich Lenin during the Great October Revolution, starting in 1917, and cost millions of lives, most during the protracted civil war and international interventions of 1918–21. But the genocide of Soviet citizens in the 1930s was directly related to Josef Stalin’s ascendance to power during what has been called the ‘Stalin Revolution’, or the ‘Second Revolution’, which centred on crash programmes of forced industrialisation and agricultural collectivisation inaugurated in 1928. Simultaneously, Stalin consolidated his dictatorial power. By 1930, writes Oleg Khlevniuk, ‘the Stalinization of the Politburo was completed’ and Stalin was ‘confirmed as the sole leader of the Politburo’.

  • 15 - The Nazis and the Slavs

  • from Part II - World War Two
  • Edited by Ben Kiernan, Yale University, Connecticut, Wendy Lower, Claremont McKenna College, California, Norman Naimark, Stanford University, California, Scott Straus, University of California, Berkeley
  • Book:
    The Cambridge World History of Genocide
    Published online:
    23 June 2023
    Print publication:
    04 May 2023, pp 358-378

  • Summary

    Adolf Hitler had a dismissive view of the Slavs, inherited in part from the late nineteenth-century German nationalist proponents of the Kulturkampf (culture struggle) and the Drang nach Osten (urge to the east). His ideas also derived from his personal experience with the Vienna of his youth; he recalled ‘the embodiment of racial defilement’ and the ‘race conglomerate’ with its ‘alien mix of nationalities’, that he felt destroyed the positive characteristics of Germandom. During and after World War One, his views conformed to the blended ideology of antisemitism, anti-Slavism and colonialism that characterised much of German right-wing thinking about the east.

  • Applebaum, Fitzpatrick and the Genocide Question

  • NORMAN M. NAIMARK
  • Journal:
    Contemporary European History / Volume 27 / Issue 3 / August 2018
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    23 July 2018, pp. 435-439
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    August 2018
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  • Both Sheila Fitzpatrick and Anne Applebaum are fine historians who have made important contributions to the historiography of the Soviet Union. Applebaum works as a journalist and writer. But that is no reason to sniff at her contributions as ‘popular history’ or ‘history light’. In the books I have read, Gulag: A History (2003), Iron Curtain (2012) and Red Famine (2017), she has always strived to document her assertions, present logical and well-honed arguments and use archival and other documentary material where possible to forge new paths. One might not always agree with her conclusions, but that is a different question. If only more of our colleagues could write as well as Applebaum, think as clearly and attack important subjects the way she does, we would have a richer historiography as a result.

The Cambridge History of Communism
  • Volume 2, The Socialist Camp and World Power 1941–1960s
  • Edited by Norman Naimark, Silvio Pons, Sophie Quinn-Judge
  • Published online:
    28 September 2017
    Print publication:
    21 September 2017
  • The second volume of The Cambridge History of Communism explores the rise of Communist states and movements after World War II. Leading experts analyze archival sources from formerly Communist states to re-examine the limits to Moscow's control of its satellites; the de-Stalinization of 1956; Communist reform movements; the rise and fall of the Sino-Soviet alliance; the growth of Communism in Asia, Africa and Latin America; and the effects of the Sino-Soviet split on world Communism. Chapters explore the cultures of Communism in the United States, Western Europe and China, and the conflicts engendered by nationalism and the continued need for support from Moscow. With the danger of a new Cold War developing between former and current Communist states and the West, this account of the roots, development and dissolution of the socialist bloc is essential reading.

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