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Norman M. Naimark, MS, PhD
Robert and Florence McDonnel Professor of Eastern European Studies; Professor of History; CISAC Affiliated Faculty Member; Europe Center Research Affiliate and FSI Senior Fellow by courtesyView Norman Naimark's bio, list of research, recent publications and events »
September 28th, 2010
Norman Naimark redefines "genocide"
CISAC, FSI Stanford, The Europe Center NewsIn his new book, Stalin's Genocides (Princeton University Press), CISAC affiliated faculty member and research affiliate at The Europe Center Norman Naimark proposes an expansion of the standard definition of genocide: the systematic mass murder of national, ethnic, racial and religious groups. Naimark argues that the definition of the "crime of crimes" should be expanded to include social classes and political groups, and uses Josef Stalin's rule as a case in point. 
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April 20th, 2010
FCE Affiliate Norman Naimark on Poland
The Europe Center in the news: Stanford Report on April 10, 2010FSI Senior Fellow and FCE Research Affiliate Professor Norman Naimark offered remarks about Poland in the wake of the April 10 plane crash in which Polish President Lech Kaczynski and many of Poland's top civil servants and military leaders were killed. Read more »
August 1st, 2007
SPICE and The Stanford Challenge: 30 Years of Educating New Generations of Leaders
FSI Stanford, SPICE NewsSPICE was established more than 30 years ago and serves as a bridge between FSI and elementary and secondary schools in the United States and independent schools abroad. SPICE's original mission in 1976 was to help students understand that we live in an increasingly interdependent world that faces problems on a global scale. For 30 years, SPICE has continued to address this original mission and currently focuses its efforts primarily in three areas: (1) curriculum development for elementary and secondary schools; (2) teacher professional development; and (3) distance-learning education. Read more »
February 20th, 2004
Historian Naimark offers perspective on proposed memorial to expelled Germans
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center NewsIn a Jan. 21 article published in the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, SIIS senior fellow and historian Norman Naimark offered his perspective on the emotions and issues raised by a foundation that seeks to create a research center and museum in Berlin dedicated to studying forced population transfers in 20th-century Europe. Such forced transfers included the expulsion of 15 million ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe.
Sentiment against a memorial to German victims is particularly high in Poland and the Czech Republic, where, Naimark noted, the treatment of Germans at the fall of the Third Reich showed all the signs of being an ethnic cleansing that was in part a reaction to Nazi atrocities. Naimark, the Robert and Florence McDonnel Professor of Eastern European Studies, suggested that the expulsion of the Germans deserves further study, and that more public discussion is needed before deciding whether to build the center and museum. 
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