Norman Naimark

Norman M. Naimark ( born 1944 in California) is an American historian and political scientist.

He is a professor of history at the Robert and Florence McDonnell Institute for Eastern European Studies and Director of the History Department (Centre for Russian and East European Studies ) from Stanford University, California.

Naimark considered an expert on Eastern European and Russian history. His research dealt mainly with Soviet policy and practice in Europe after the Second World War and with genocide and ethnic cleansing in the 20th century. For his outstanding research performance earned him the Distinguished Service Cross 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany was awarded by the Federal President Roman Herzog.

Naimark was in 2011 (class of spring ) Axel Springer Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin.

Publications

He is the editor of numerous scientific publications and author of:

• Stalin and the genocide. From the American Kurt Baudisch. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-518-42201-4.
• Fires Of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in 20th Century Europe, Harvard 2001 (. Flaming hatred Ethnic cleansing in the 20th century, Beck, Munich 2004, ISBN 3406517579 ( review ) )
• . The Russians in Germany: The History Of The Soviet Zone Of Occupation, 1945-1949, Harvard University Press Cambridge, MA 1995 ( The Russians in Germany, the Soviet Occupation Zone from 1945 to 1949, Ullsteinhaus, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-548-26549 - 9)
• 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