Norman M. Naimark is the critically acclaimed author of Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe, The Russians in Germany, and Stalin’s Genocides. He is Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor of East European Studies at Stanford University and a Senior Fellow (by courtesy) of the Hoover Institution and the Freeman-Spogli Institute. He received the Richard W. Lyman Award and Dean’s Teaching Award from Stanford University.

[A] masterly analysis of the Soviet occupation between the end of the war and the emergence of two German states… [A] startlingly original book.

• Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction 1. From Soviet to German Administration 2. Soviet Soldiers, German Women, and the Problem of Rape 3. Reparations, Removals, and the Economic Transformation of the Zone 4. The Soviet Use of German Science 5. The Soviets and the German Left 6. The Tiul'panov Question and Soviet Policy-making in the Zone 7. Building the East German Police State 8. The Politics of Culture and Education Conclusion Sources Notes Index

Norman M. Naimark is the critically acclaimed author of Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe, The Russians in Germany, and Stalin’s Genocides. He is Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor of East European Studies at Stanford University and a Senior Fellow (by courtesy) of the Hoover Institution and the Freeman-Spogli Institute. He received the Richard W. Lyman Award and Dean’s Teaching Award from Stanford University.

[A] masterly analysis of the Soviet occupation between the end of the war and the emergence of two German states… [A] startlingly original book.

• Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction 1. From Soviet to German Administration 2. Soviet Soldiers, German Women, and the Problem of Rape 3. Reparations, Removals, and the Economic Transformation of the Zone 4. The Soviet Use of German Science 5. The Soviets and the German Left 6. The Tiul'panov Question and Soviet Policy-making in the Zone 7. Building the East German Police State 8. The Politics of Culture and Education Conclusion Sources Notes Index

Norman M. Naimark is the critically acclaimed author of Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe, The Russians in Germany, and Stalin’s Genocides. He is Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor of East European Studies at Stanford University and a Senior Fellow (by courtesy) of the Hoover Institution and the Freeman-Spogli Institute. He received the Richard W. Lyman Award and Dean’s Teaching Award from Stanford University.

[A] masterly analysis of the Soviet occupation between the end of the war and the emergence of two German states… [A] startlingly original book.

• Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction 1. From Soviet to German Administration 2. Soviet Soldiers, German Women, and the Problem of Rape 3. Reparations, Removals, and the Economic Transformation of the Zone 4. The Soviet Use of German Science 5. The Soviets and the German Left 6. The Tiul'panov Question and Soviet Policy-making in the Zone 7. Building the East German Police State 8. The Politics of Culture and Education Conclusion Sources Notes Index