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).