Norman Naimark

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Norman M. Naimark (born June 19, 1944 in New York ) is an American historian and political scientist .

Norman Naimark studied at Stanford University . He began his academic career at Boston University and as a fellow at Harvard University . As a Humboldt fellowship , he researched archives in Moscow and Berlin. He has been Professor of History at the Robert and Florence McDonnell Institute for Eastern European Studies since 1988 and Director of the Faculty of History (Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies) at Stanford University.

Naimark is an expert on Eastern European and Russian history. His research is primarily concerned with Soviet politics and practices in Europe after World War II and with genocide and ethnic cleansing in the 20th century. In October 1996, President Roman Herzog awarded him the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his outstanding research achievements . Since 2014 he has been a corresponding member of the philosophical-historical class abroad of the Austrian Academy of Sciences .

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

Publications

He is editor of numerous scientific publications and author of:

  • With Ronald Grigor Suny and Fatma Muge Gogek: A Question of Genocide: Armenians and Turks at the End of the Ottoman Empire . Oxford Univ. Press 2011. ISBN 978-0-19539374-3 .
  • Stalin and the genocide . From the American by Kurt Baudisch. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-518-42201-4 . ( Review )
  • Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in 20th Century Europe , Harvard 2001 ( Flammender Haß. Ethnic Cleansing in the 20th Century , Beck, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-40651757-9 ( 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 Zone of Occupation 1945–1949 , Ullstein, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-548-26549- 9 )
  • Terrorists and Social Democrats: The Russian Revolutionary Movement under Alexander III . Harvard 1983, ISBN 978-0674874640 .
  • The History of the "Proletariat". The Emergence of Marxism in the Kingdom of Poland, 1870-1887 , Columbia 1979, ISBN 978-0914710509 .

Naimark is co-editor of the American Historical Review and the Journal of Contemporary History . He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Cold War Studies.

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Footnotes

  1. ^ The Stanford Daily
  2. ^ Arnold Suppan : Norman Naimark. In: Austrian Academy of Sciences. Almanac 2013/14, 163/164. Volume, Vienna 2015, p. 246.
  3. JCWS