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Stalin's genocides

Norman M. Naimark (Author)
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. Stalin's Genocides is the chilling story of these crimes. The book 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
eBook, English, 2010
Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2010
History
1 online resource (ix, 163 pages)
9781400836062, 1400836069
656875290
The genocide issue
The making of a genocidaire
Dekulakization
The Holodomor
Removing nations
The Great Terror
The crimes of Stalin and Hitler
Conclusions