Norman M. Naimark is an American historian

Historian

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, and author who specializes in modern Eastern European history, and genocide

Genocide

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 and ethnic cleansing

Ethnic cleansing

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 in the region.

He is Robert and Florence McDonnel Professor of Eastern European Studies, at Stanford University

Stanford University

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, and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution

Hoover Institution

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Life

Naimark received all of his degrees at Stanford. He taught at Boston University

Boston University

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, and was a fellow at Harvard University

Harvard University

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's Russian Research Center before returning to Stanford as a member of the faculty in the 1980s.

He is a member of the editorial boards of a number of professional journals such as:

• The American Historical Review
  American Historical Review
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• The Journal of Contemporary History
• The Journal Of Cold War Studies

He has been awarded the Officers Cross of the Order of Merit

Bundesverdienstkreuz

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 by Germany

Germany

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He is most known to the public for his acclaimed study The Russians In Germany.

Naimark is the Spring 2011 recipient of Alex Springer Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin

American Academy in Berlin

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Published works

Books

• The Russians In Germany: The History Of The Soviet Zone Of Occupation, 1945–1949 (Harvard, 1995)
• Fires Of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing In 20th Century Europe (Harvard, 2001)
• Stalin's Genocides (Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity). Princeton University Press
  Princeton University Press
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  , 2010.
• Terrorists And Social Democrats: The Russian Revolutionary Movement Under Alexander III (Harvard, 1983)
• The History Of The "Proletariat": The Emergence Of Marxism In The Kingdom Of Poland, 1870–1887 (Columbia, 1979)

Essays

• “Totalitarian States and the History of Genocide”. Telos 136 (Summer 2006). New York: Telos Press.
• Remembering Genocide in Srebrenica July 13, 2005
• Facing Up to Kosova April 24, 2000

External links

• Biography of Naimark from Stanford
• Harvard Review of The Russians in Germany A History of the Soviet Zone of Occupation, 1945-1949
• HNet review of The Russians in Germany: A History of the Soviet Zone of Occupation, 1945-1949.
• Historians to reconsider Russian occupation of Eastern Europe
• HNet review of Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe.
• Interview with Naimark on "New Books in History."
• American Academy in Berlin
• Norman M. Naimark: Stalin and Europe, 1945–1953 – Video of a lecture given at the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung
  Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung
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  in Potsdam on April 14, 2011.