Academic Appointments


Program Affiliations


  • Center for Human Rights and International Justice
  • Program in International Relations
  • Public Policy

2024-25 Courses


Stanford Advisees


All Publications


  • "Little USSR" and its inhabitants: Essays on the social history of the Soviet occupation community in Germany (Book Review) RUSSIAN REVIEW Book Review Authored by: Naimark, N. M. 2022; 81 (3): 586-587
  • The Cold War: A World History (Book Review) JOURNAL OF COLD WAR STUDIES Book Review Authored by: Naimark, N. M. 2022; 24 (1): 254-258
  • The Holodomor in the Context of Soviet Mass Killing in the 1930s GENOCIDE Naimark, N. M., Graziosi, A., Sysyn, F. E. 2022: 107-125
  • Business trip to Power (Book Review) JOURNAL OF COLD WAR STUDIES Book Review Authored by: Naimark, N. M. 2021; 23 (4): 253-255
  • The Russian Revolution: From Tsarist Empire to Soviet Empire (Book Review) AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW Book Review Authored by: Naimark, N. M. 2020; 125 (4): 1555–56
  • Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial: Scenes from the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine (Book Review) SOVIET AND POST SOVIET REVIEW Book Review Authored by: Naimark, N. M. 2019; 46 (1): 76–79
  • Soviet and east European studies and Baltic studies: a historical exploration JOURNAL OF BALTIC STUDIES Naimark, N. M. 2019; 50 (2): 133–42
  • Genocide and Global and/or World History: Reflections JOURNAL OF GENOCIDE RESEARCH Adhikari, M., Carmichael, C., Jones, A., Kapila, S., Naimark, N., Weitz, E. D. 2018; 20 (1): 134–53
  • Stalin and the Struggle for Supremacy in Eurasia. (Book Review) JOURNAL OF COLD WAR STUDIES Book Review Authored by: Naimark, N. 2016; 18 (3): 219-221
  • Robert Conquest, 1917-2015 IN MEMORIAM SLAVIC REVIEW Dunlop, J. B., Naimark, N. M. 2016; 75 (1): 238–39
  • Hitler's Plans for Global Domination: Nazi Architecture and Ultimate War Aims (Book Review) HISTORIAN Book Review Authored by: Naimark, N. M. 2014; 76 (2): 431-432
  • Stalin's curse: battling for communism in war and Cold War (Book Review) INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Book Review Authored by: Naimark, N. M. 2013; 89 (5): 1333-1335
  • Stalinist Terror in Eastern Europe: Elite Purges and Mass Repression. (Book Review) SLAVIC REVIEW Book Review Authored by: Naimark, N. M. 2012; 71 (3): 673-674
  • Reply to the Commentaries JOURNAL OF COLD WAR STUDIES Naimark, N. 2012; 14 (3): 183-189
  • The Russians and Germans: Rape during the War and Post-Soviet Memories RAPE IN WARTIME Naimark, N. M., Branche, R., Virgili, F. 2012: 201-219
  • East European History: The "State of the Field" Report on the Stanford-Yale Workshop, September 17 and 18, 2010 EAST EUROPEAN POLITICS AND SOCIETIES Naimark, N., Snyder, T. 2011; 25 (4): 759-762
  • Russia's Cold War: From the October Revolution to the Fall of the Wall (Book Review) RUSSIAN REVIEW Book Review Authored by: Naimark, N. M. 2011; 70 (4): 704-705
  • Stalinism Revisited: The Establishment of Communist Regimes in Eastern Europe (Book Review) SLAVIC REVIEW Book Review Authored by: Naimark, N. M. 2011; 70 (1): 173-174
  • The Sovietization of Eastern Europe: New Perspectives on the Postwar Period (Book Review) JOURNAL OF COLD WAR STUDIES Book Review Authored by: Naimark, N. M. 2010; 12 (2): 126-127
  • German-Diary 1945-1946: Notes of a Red Army soldier (Book Review) JOURNAL OF COLD WAR STUDIES Book Review Authored by: Naimark, N. M. 2010; 12 (1): 191-193
  • Dynamic of Destruction: Culture and Mass Killing in the First World War (Book Review) AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW Book Review Authored by: Naimark, N. M. 2009; 114 (4): 1145-1145
  • The national-socialistic Jew murder and the Polish -Jewish relation in discourse of Polish underground press, 1942-1944 (Book Review) SLAVIC REVIEW Book Review Authored by: Naimark, N. M. 2009; 68 (1): 152-153
  • Terrible fate: Ethnic cleansing in the making of modern Europe (Book Review) JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY Book Review Authored by: Naimark, N. M. 2008; 80 (2): 393-394
  • Blood and soil: A world history of genocide and extermination from Sparta to Darfur (Book Review) AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW Book Review Authored by: Naimark, N. M. 2008; 113 (3): 773-775
  • STALIN AND THE QUESTION OF SOVIET GENOCIDE Conference on Political Violence - Belief, Behavior, and Legitimation Naimark, N. M. PALGRAVE. 2008: 39-?
  • The Armenian massacres in Ottoman Turkey: A disputed genocide (Book Review) HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE STUDIES Book Review Authored by: Naimark, N. M. 2007; 21 (2): 298-303
  • The great game of genocide: Imperialism, nationalism, and the destruction of the Ottoman Armenians (Book Review) HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE STUDIES Book Review Authored by: Naimark, N. M. 2007; 21 (2): 298-303
  • Modern times? War, revolution and violence in the 20th century (Book Review) SLAVIC REVIEW Book Review Authored by: Naimark, N. M. 2007; 66 (4): 763-764
  • Vladimir Konstantinovich Volkov, 1930-2005 - Obituary SLAVIC REVIEW Naimark, N. M. 2006; 65 (2): 425-426
  • Cold peace: Stalin and the Soviet ruling circle, 1945-1953. (Book Review) JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY Book Review Authored by: Naimark, N. M. 2006; 78 (1): 283-285
  • The Specter of Genocide: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective (Book Review) CANADIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORY-ANNALES CANADIENNES D HISTOIRE Book Review Authored by: Naimark, N. M. 2005; 40 (1): 172-173
  • The red terror: History of Stalinism. (Book Review) RUSSIAN REVIEW Book Review Authored by: Naimark, N. M. 2005; 64 (1): 154-156
  • Soviet reparations in Germany 1944-1949: Background, aims and effects. (Book Review) JAHRBUCHER FUR GESCHICHTE OSTEUROPAS Book Review Authored by: Naimark, N. M. 2005; 53 (4): 640-641
  • Post-Soviet Russian historiography on the emergence of the Soviet bloc KRITIKA-EXPLORATIONS IN RUSSIAN AND EURASIAN HISTORY Naimark, N. M. 2004; 5 (3): 561-580
  • Hitler strikes Poland: Blitzkrieg, ideology, and atrocity. (Book Review) SLAVIC REVIEW Book Review Authored by: Naimark, N. M. 2004; 63 (1): 156-157
  • Behind the scenes of the National Committee - The Institute 99 in Moscow and Societ policy toward Germany 1943-1946, vol 82 (Book Review) JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY Book Review Authored by: Naimark, N. M. 2004; 76 (1): 246-249
  • A carnival of revolution: Central Europe 1989 (Book Review) CENTRAL EUROPEAN HISTORY Book Review Authored by: Naimark, N. M. 2004; 37 (2): 334-335
  • Musial's essay on the murders at Jedwabne - A comment SLAVIC REVIEW Naimark, N. M. 2003; 62 (2): 440-440
  • Forging democracy: The history of the left in Europe, 1850-2000. (Book Review) AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW Book Review Authored by: Naimark, N. M. 2003; 108 (3): 906-907
  • Ethnic cleansing from a comparative perspective: A Documentary Center on Forced Displacement ZEITSCHRIFT FUR GESCHICHTSWISSENSCHAFT Naimark, N. M. 2003; 51 (1): 20-30
  • The Nazis and "The East": Jedwabne's circle of Hell (Jan Gross's 'Neighbors') SLAVIC REVIEW Naimark, N. M. 2002; 61 (3): 476-482
  • Ana Pauker: The rise and fall of a Jewish communist (Book Review) SLAVIC REVIEW Book Review Authored by: Naimark, N. M. 2002; 61 (2): 389-390
  • Cold War studies and new archival materials on Stalin RUSSIAN REVIEW Naimark, N. M. 2002; 61 (1): 1-15
  • Genocide and the global village (Book Review) HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE STUDIES Book Review Authored by: Naimark, N. M. 2002; 16 (3): 459-462
  • Camps, forced labor, expulsion and deportation: Dimensions of ethnic cleansing in the Soviet Union and in Germany, 1933 to 1945 (Book Review) HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE STUDIES Book Review Authored by: Naimark, N. M. 2001; 15 (2): 326-329
  • The politics of retribution in Europe: World War II and its aftermath. (Book Review) AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW Book Review Authored by: Naimark, N. M. 2001; 106 (4): 1450-1451
  • Everyday life behind the front. Occupation, collaboration and resistance in Byelarus 1941-1944 (Book Review) SLAVIC REVIEW Book Review Authored by: Naimark, N. M. 2000; 59 (3): 656-657
  • Ten years after: Perspectives on 1989 EAST EUROPEAN POLITICS AND SOCIETIES Naimark, N. M. 1999; 13 (2): 323-327
  • Stalinism and Nazism: Dictatorships in comparison. (Book Review) AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW Book Review Authored by: Naimark, N. M. 1999; 104 (1): 159-160
  • Inside the Kremlin's Cold War: From Stalin to Khrushchev - Zubok,V, Pleshakov,C (Book Review) SLAVIC REVIEW Book Review Authored by: Naimark, N. M. 1997; 56 (1): 151-152
  • Dissolution: The crisis of communism and the end of East Germany (Book Review) CENTRAL EUROPEAN HISTORY Book Review Authored by: Naimark, N. M. 1997; 30 (4): 630-633
  • The Soviets and the Christian Democrats: The challenge of a ''bourgeois'' party in eastern Germany, 1945-1949 EAST EUROPEAN POLITICS AND SOCIETIES Naimark, N. M. 1995; 9 (3): 369-392
  • THE GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS OF POSTCOMMUNIST EUROPE - MICHTA,AA (Book Review) RUSSIAN REVIEW Book Review Authored by: Naimark, N. M. 1995; 54 (3): 489-489
  • FINAL REPORT OF THE JOINT TASK-FORCE ON ARCHIVES, AMERICAN-ASSOCIATION-FOR-THE-ADVANCEMENT-OF-SLAVIC-STUDIES AND THE AMERICAN-HISTORICAL-ASSOCIATION, 1 APRIL 1995 SLAVIC REVIEW Naimark, N., ROSENBERG, W. G., Taubman, W., Weathersby, K., Raleigh, D. J., Freeze, G. L., RANSEL, D. 1995; 54 (2): 407-426
  • THE GERMAN QUESTION - FROM DIVISION TO UNIFICATION - A REEXAMINATION - RUSSIAN - FILITOV,AM (Book Review) SLAVIC REVIEW Book Review Authored by: Naimark, N. M. 1995; 54 (2): 535-536
  • THE SOVIET MILITARY ADMINISTRATION IN GERMANY AND THE QUESTION OF STALINISM - CHANGING PERSPECTIVES IN LIGHT OF NEW SOURCES FROM RUSSIAN ARCHIVES ZEITSCHRIFT FUR GESCHICHTSWISSENSCHAFT Naimark, N. M. 1995; 43 (4): 293-307
  • MINORITY NATIONS IN THE HISTORY OF EASTERN-EUROPE, FESTSCHRIFT FOR STOKL,GUNTHER 75TH BIRTHDAY - GERMAN - ALEXANDER,M, KAMPFER,F, KAPPELER,A (Book Review) JAHRBUCHER FUR GESCHICHTE OSTEUROPAS Book Review Authored by: Naimark, N. M. 1993; 41 (4): 581-582
  • BRZOZOWSKI,STANISLAW AND THE POLISH BEGINNINGS OF WESTERN MARXISM - WALICKI,A (Book Review) SLAVIC REVIEW Book Review Authored by: Naimark, N. M. 1992; 51 (1): 179-180
  • EAST EUROPEAN FAULT LINES - DISSENT, OPPOSITION, AND SOCIAL ACTIVISM - BUGAJSKI,J, POLLACK,M (Book Review) SLAVIC REVIEW Book Review Authored by: Naimark, N. M. 1992; 51 (4): 826-831
  • UNDERCOVER AGENTS IN THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT - THE SR PARTY, 1902-14 - SCHLEIFMAN,N (Book Review) AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW Book Review Authored by: Naimark, N. M. 1990; 95 (3): 872-872
  • DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS AND MASTERS THESES REGARDING POLISH SUBJECTS 1900-1985 - AN ANNOTATED-BIBLIOGRAPHY - WIELEWSKI,B (Book Review) SLAVIC REVIEW Book Review Authored by: Naimark, N. M. 1989; 48 (1): 128-129