J. Otto Pohl

Jonathan Otto Pohl (born 1970) is an American historian who formerly worked for the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani, University of Ghana, and American University of Central Asia. His PhD in History is from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Pohl is American, and was born in 1970.^[1][2] Pohl received a BA in history from Grinnell College.^[2] He received a Masters degree in history from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and went on to receive a PhD from the same institution.^[2][3]

He previously taught at the American University of Central Asia, University of Ghana, and the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani.^[3][4][5]

Pohl has written three books; his works are primarily focused on ethnic cleansing in the Soviet Union.^[6] His first, The Stalinist Penal System: A Statistical History of Soviet Repression and Terror 1930-1953, was published in 1997 by McFarland.^[7][8][9] His second book, Ethnic Cleansing in the USSR, 1937-1949, was published by Greenwood Press in 1999.^{[10][11][12][13][14]} Pohl's third book, The Years of Great Silence: The Deportation, Special Settlement, and Mobilization into the Labor Army of Ethnic Germans in the USSR, 1941–1955, was published in 2022 by ibidem Verlag.^[6]

He contributed a chapter to the 2008 edited volume Migration, Homeland, and Belonging in Eurasia, about Soviet deportations.^[15][16] He also contributed a chapter to the 2016 book Kwame Nkrumah, 1909-1972: A Controversial Visionary by Bea Lundt and Christopher Marx, about Ghanaian president Kwame Nkrumah. His chapter focuses on the coup against Nkrumah, and the CIA's role.^[4][17]

• Pohl, J. Otto (1997). The Stalinist Penal System: A Statistical History of Soviet Repression and Terror, 1930-1953. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-0336-3.
• Pohl, J. Otto (1999). Ethnic Cleansing in the USSR, 1937-1949. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-30921-2.
• Pohl, J. Otto (2009). Catherine's Grandchildren: A Short History of the Russian-Germans under Soviet Rule. American Historical Society of Germans from Russia.
• Pohl, Jonathan Otto (2022). The Years of Great Silence: The Deportation, Special Settlement, and Mobilization into the Labor Army of Ethnic Germans in the USSR, 1941–1955. ibidem. ISBN 978-3-8382-1630-0.

• Pohl, J. Otto (June 1, 2000). "Stalin's genocide against the "Repressed Peoples"". Journal of Genocide Research. 2 (2): 267–293. doi:10.1080/713677598. ISSN 1462-3528.
• Pohl, J. Otto; Schmaltz, Eric J.; Vossler, Ronald J. (September 1, 2009). ""In our hearts we felt the sentence of death": ethnic German recollections of mass violence in the USSR, 1928–48". Journal of Genocide Research. 11 (2–3): 323–354. doi:10.1080/14623520903119035. ISSN 1462-3528.
• Pohl, J. Otto (2009). "Volk auf dem Weg: Transnational Migration of the Russian-Germans from 1763 to the Present Day". Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism. 9 (2): 267–286. doi:10.1111/j.1754-9469.2009.01050.x. ISSN 1754-9469.
• Pohl, J. Otto (2008). "The Loss, Retention, and Reacquisition of Social Capital by Special Settlers in the USSR, 1941–1960". In Buckley, Cynthia J.; Ruble, Blair A.; Hofmann, Erin Trouth (eds.). Migration, Homeland, and Belonging in Eurasia. Woodrow Wilson Center Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-9075-8.
• Pohl, Jonathan Otto (2016). "Nkrumah, the Cold War, the 'Third World', and the US Role in the 24 February 1966 Coup". In Lundt, Bea; Marx, Christopher (eds.). Kwame Nkrumah, 1909-1972: A Controversial Visionary. Franz Steiner Verlag. ISBN 978-3-515-11575-9.
• Pohl, J. Otto (2016). "The Persecution of Ethnic Germans in the USSR during World War II". The Russian Review. 75 (2): 284–303. doi:10.1111/russ.12075. ISSN 1467-9434.