Zwangsmigration im Europa des 20. Jahrhunderts:: Probleme und Verlaufsmuster

This article reviews the various terminology used for “forced migration” and suggests that scholars and publicists employ language that reflects the level of violence frequently inherent in the process. Therefore terms like “forced deportation” and “ethnic cleansing” would be preferable. The piece also reviews the history of “forced migration” since the end of the 19th Century and suggests that the role of international factors, while clearly a part of the process, are frequently over-emphasized and that historians should focus on the motives, intentions, and actions of the states, political elites, and local actors that carry out the actions

Beyond national narratives? : centenary histories, the First World War and the Armenian Genocide

In April 2015 the centenary of the Armenian Genocide was commemorated. Just like the First World War centenary, this anniversary has provoked a flurry of academic and public interest in what remains a highly contested history. This article assesses the state of the current historiography on the fate of the Ottoman Armenians. It focuses on the possibilities for moving beyond the national narratives which continue to dominate the field, in particular through connecting the case of the Armenian Genocide to what has been termed a ‘transnational turn’ in the writing of the history of the First World War

Interview with Norman Naimark--July 26, 2013

Interview Themes: The path Naimark followed to becoming a historian of East-Central Europe (1:17); On Naimark's first visit to the region (Yugoslavia 1964/5 and Poland 68/9) (7:41); How how Naimark came to write his dissertation on the 19th-century party, Wielki Proletariat [Great Proletariat] (11:35) The origins of Naimark's first two books: The History of the "Proletariat": The Emergence of Marxism in the Kingdom of Poland, 1870-1887 (1979) and Terrorists and Social Democrats: The Russian Revolutionary Movement under Alexander III (1983) (13:28); On asking "big questions" (26:25); On writing history with the contemporary political situation in mind (34:22); Area studies and inter-disicplinarity: parallel decline? (40:34); How Naimark defines the region he studies (44:29); Books that have had an intellectual influence on Naimark (48:29); Naimark on mentorship and his own mentor, Wayne Vucinich (53:51); Commonalities between Naimark's students' work (1:05:10); What remains to be done in the field of East-Central European history (1:11:22)Interview with Norman Naimark, Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor in East European Studies at Stanford University. Interview conducted in Ithaca, NY on July 26, 2013. Naimark is the author of several books including two on the nineteenth-century Russian and Polish revolutionary movements, a seminal work on The Russians in Germany: A History of theSoviet Zone of Occupation, 1945-1949 (1997), another on ethnic cleansing, Firesof Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe (2002), and most recently a book on Stalin's Genocides (2011). He is also editor and co-editor of a number of volumes, such as The Establishment Of Communist Regimes In Eastern Europe, 1944-1949 (1998) and Yugoslavia and Its Historians: Understanding the Balkan Wars of the 1990s (2003).1_5xgbuy8