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#248 – Norman Naimark: Genocide, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and Absolute Power

Dec 13, 2021 · 2:25:24
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  • Historian Norman Naimark specializes in genocide studies, analyzing Stalin's, Hitler's, and Mao's systematic atrocities and their mechanisms
  • Examines how absolute power enabled totalitarian regimes to commit mass violence and the conditions enabling such horrors
  • Discusses historical evidence, survivor accounts, and lessons for preventing genocide in modern era

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Absolute Power
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Norman Naimark: Genocide
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