cover of episode Norman Naimark, “Stalin’s Genocides” (Princeton UP, 2010)

Norman Naimark, “Stalin’s Genocides” (Princeton UP, 2010)

2010/9/24
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Absolutely no one doubts that Stalin murdered millions of people in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. His ruthless campaign of “dekulakization,” his pitiless deportation of “unreliable” ethnic groups, his senseless starvation of Ukrainian peasants, his cruel attempt to “cleanse” the Communist Party of supposed “enemies of the people”–all of these...