Norman M. Naimark (/ˈneɪmɑːrk/; born 1944, New York City) is an American historian. He is the Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor of Eastern European Studies at Stanford University,[1] and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.[2] He writes on modern Eastern European history, genocide, and ethnic cleansing in the region.[3]

Career

Naimark received all of his degrees at Stanford. He taught at Boston University, and was a fellow at Harvard University's Russian Research Center before returning to Stanford as a member of the faculty in the 1980s. Naimark is of Jewish heritage; his parents were born in Galicia.^{[citation needed]}

He is a member of the editorial boards of a number of professional journals, including The American Historical Review and. The Journal of Contemporary History.

He was awarded the Officers Cross of the Order of Merit by Germany.[3]

He may be best-known for his acclaimed study, The Russians In Germany.[4] He wrote in a 2017 essay that genocide is often tied to war, dehumanization, and/or economic resentment. He writes, "if there weren’t other very good reasons to prevent war, the correlation between war and genocide is a good one".[5]

Published works

Books

• Stalin and the Fate of Europe: The Postwar Struggle for Sovereignty. (Harvard University Press, 2019).
• Genocide: A World History. Oxford University Press, 2017.
• A Question of Genocide: Armenians and Turks at the End of the Ottoman Empire. Oxford University Press, 2011 (Paperback ed. 2012, ISBN 978-0199930371). (Editor, together with Ronald Grigor Suny and Fatma Müge Göçek)
• Stalin's Genocides (Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity). Princeton University Press, 2010.[6]
• Fires Of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing In 20th Century Europe (Harvard, 2001)
• The Russians In Germany: The History Of The Soviet Zone Of Occupation, 1945–1949 (Harvard, 1995)
• 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)

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• Biography of Naimark from Stanford
• 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 in Potsdam on April 14, 2011.