Introduction 1. The Armenians and Greeks of Anatolia 2. The Nazi Attack on the Jews 3. Soviet Deportation of the Chechens-Ingush and the Crimean Tatars 4. The Expulsion of Germans from Poland and Czechoslovakia 5. The Wars of Yugoslav Succession Conclusion Notes Acknowledgments Index
As a contribution to the study of mass violence in this century, this book is very reliable, eminently readable, and highly educational. Naimark emphasizes that ethnic cleansing is a 'profoundly modern experience' and the international community, which has sometimes encouraged and more usually ignored large-scale atrocities, is responsible. -- Stanley Hoffmann, Harvard University During the last decade, Americans and Europeans rediscovered the horrors of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo. Norman Naimark's important research demonstrates that it was hardly an invention of the l990s, but has had a long history, often shrouded in silence because it was easier to live with the results. This is an immensely relevant and anguishing study. -- Charles Maier, Harvard University
Norman M. Naimark is the critically acclaimed author of Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe, The Russians in Germany, and Stalin’s Genocides. He is Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor of East European Studies at Stanford University and a Senior Fellow (by courtesy) of the Hoover Institution and the Freeman-Spogli Institute. He received the Richard W. Lyman Award and Dean’s Teaching Award from Stanford University.
As Norman M. Naimark observes…with broad enough standards the
‘ethnic cleansing’ label can be affixed to events as disparate as
the destruction of Carthage, the crusade against the Albigensians,
the expulsion of Jews from Spain, the Spanish conquest of the Incas
and Aztecs, and the expulsion of Indians from tribal lands in the
United States… He objects that such a catchall approach fails to
explain current events in useful terms… Naimark provides…disturbing
details—and much other cause for sad reflection.
*New Leader*
What strands link the last century’s bloody spasms of ethnic
cleansing—from the Armenian genocide and the Holocaust to Bosnia
and Kosovo? Stanford University historian Naimark argues ethnic
cleansing is a profoundly twentieth-century phenomenon, not a
product of ‘ancient hatreds’… The ugliness of ethnic cleansing—its
violence and brutality, its misogyny and totality, its effort to
eradicate every trace of ‘the other’—poses unique challenges to an
international community reluctant to intervene in the internal
affairs of a sovereign nation state.
*Booklist*
A needed measure of clarity… [Naimark] embeds ethnic cleansing in
the history of 20th-century Europe…[and] undercuts the standard
wisdom that holds ancient enmities responsible for atrocities
perpetrated in the modern era… Students of history and
international relations are indebted to professor Naimark for [his]
sobering insights.
*Library Journal*
As a contribution to the study of mass violence in this century,
this book is very reliable, eminently readable, and highly
educational. Naimark emphasizes that ethnic cleansing is a
‘profoundly modern experience’ and the international community,
which has sometimes encouraged and more usually ignored large-scale
atrocities, is responsible.
*Stanley Hoffmann, Harvard University*
During the last decade, Americans and Europeans rediscovered the
horrors of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo. Norman
Naimark’s important research demonstrates that it was hardly an
invention of the l990s, but has had a long history, often shrouded
in silence because it was easier to live with the results. This is
an immensely relevant and anguishing study.
*Charles Maier, Harvard University*
As Norman M. Naimark observes...with broad enough standards the
'ethnic cleansing' label can be affixed to events as disparate as
the destruction of Carthage, the crusade against the Albigensians,
the expulsion of Jews from Spain, the Spanish conquest of the Incas
and Aztecs, and the expulsion of Indians from tribal lands in the
United States... He objects that such a catchall approach fails to
explain current events in useful terms... Naimark
provides...disturbing details-and much other cause for sad
reflection. -- Anatole Shub * New Leader *
What strands link the last century's bloody spasms of ethnic
cleansing-from the Armenian genocide and the Holocaust to Bosnia
and Kosovo? Stanford University historian Naimark argues ethnic
cleansing is a profoundly twentieth-century phenomenon, not a
product of 'ancient hatreds'... The ugliness of ethnic
cleansing-its violence and brutality, its misogyny and totality,
its effort to eradicate every trace of 'the other'-poses unique
challenges to an international community reluctant to intervene in
the internal affairs of a sovereign nation state. -- Mary Carroll *
Booklist *
A needed measure of clarity... [Naimark] embeds ethnic cleansing in
the history of 20th-century Europe...[and] undercuts the standard
wisdom that holds ancient enmities responsible for atrocities
perpetrated in the modern era... Students of history and
international relations are indebted to professor Naimark for [his]
sobering insights. -- James R. Holmes * Library Journal *
As a contribution to the study of mass violence in this century,
this book is very reliable, eminently readable, and highly
educational. Naimark emphasizes that ethnic cleansing is a
'profoundly modern experience' and the international community,
which has sometimes encouraged and more usually ignored large-scale
atrocities, is responsible. -- Stanley Hoffmann, Harvard
University
During the last decade, Americans and Europeans rediscovered the
horrors of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo. Norman
Naimark's important research demonstrates that it was hardly an
invention of the l990s, but has had a long history, often shrouded
in silence because it was easier to live with the results. This is
an immensely relevant and anguishing study. -- Charles Maier,
Harvard University
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