American historian at Stanford and Hoover Institution — author of Fires of Hatred (on ethnic cleansing in 20th century Europe) and Stalin's Genocides — a leading scholar of 20th century European ethnic violence.
Creates the framework for analyzing Stalinist violence as genocide — Naimark's Stalin's Genocides argument (that the Holodomor, the Chechen deportation, and other Stalinist mass murders meet the legal definition of genocide and should be classified as such) is the most rigorous legal-historical case for this classification.
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