Amir Weiner Explained

Amir Weiner
Birth Date:	17 September 1961
Nationality:	American
Alma Mater:	Hebrew University of Jerusalem Columbia University
Discipline:	Soviet history
Workplaces:	Stanford University Department of History

Amir Weiner (born 17 September 1961) is an American historian and associate professor of Soviet history at Stanford University. His interests include mass violence, population politics, totalitarianism, and World War II. Weiner is the director of Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, and his research includes the KGB and the Soviet Union's surveillance state.^[1] Weiner is a former research scholar for the Wilson Center, and he was affiliated with the Kennan Institute in 1994–1995.^[2]

Biography

Weiner is the Director of Graduate Studies, and holds a B.A. degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Russian studies, and international relations (1987). He graduated in history (M.A. and Ph.D.) from Columbia University in 1990 and 1995, respectively. Weiner's works include Making Sense of War: The Second World War and the Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution (2002), published by Princeton University Press,^[3] and Landscaping the Human Garden: Twentieth-Century Population Management in a Comparative Framework (2003),^[4] published by Stanford University Press.^[5] He has also contributed to articles, chapters, and reviews in academic publishing and peer-reviewed academic journals,^[6] among them critical reviews of The Black Book of Communism (1997)^[7] and Bloodlands (2010).^[8]

Bibliography

• Book: Weiner, Amir. Making Sense of War: The Second World War and the Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution. Princeton University Press. 2002. 9780691095431. paperback. Google Books. 27 November 2021.
• Book: Weiner, Amir. Landscaping the Human Garden: Twentieth-century Population Management in a Comparative Framework. Stanford University Press. 2003. 9780804746304. illustrated. Google Books. 27 November 2021.
• Weiner. Amir. May 2006. Déjà Vu All Over Again: Prague Spring, Romanian Summer, and Soviet Autumn on Russia's Western Frontier. Contemporary European History. Cambridge University Press. 15. 2. 159–194. 10.1017/S0960777306003195. 162975402. 27 November 2021. Stanford University. free.
• Weiner. Amir. June 2006. The Empires Pay a Visit: Gulag Returnees, East European Rebellions, and Soviet Frontier Politics. The Journal of Modern History. University of Chicago Press. 78. 2. 333–376. 10.1086/505800. 10.1086/505800. 155024744. 27 November 2021. Stanford University.
• Book: Weiner, Amir. 2006. https://history.stanford.edu/publications/empires-pay-visit-gulag-returnees-east-european-rebellions-and-soviet-frontier-0. Something to Die For, A Lot to Kill For: The Soviet System and the Brutalization of Warfare. Kassimeres. George. The Barbarisation of Warfare. hardback. Hurst Publishing. 9781850657996. 27 November 2021. Stanford University.
• Weiner. Amir. April 2008. Robust Revolution to Retiring Revolution: The Life Cycle of the Soviet Revolution, 1945–1968. The Slavonic and East European Review. Modern Humanities Research Association. 86. 2, The Relaunch of the Soviet Project, 1945–64. 208–231. 25479197. 27 November 2021. Stanford University.
• Book: Weiner, Amir. 2010. https://history.stanford.edu/publications/foreign-media-and-soviet-western-frontier-accounts-hungarian-and-czechoslovak-crises. Foreign Media and the Soviet Western Frontier: Accounts of the Hungarian and Czechoslovak Crises. Johnson. Ross A.. Parta. Eugene R.. Cold War Broadcasting: Impact on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. hardcover. Central European University Press. 9789639776807. 10.7829/j.ctt1282v9. 27 November 2021. Stanford University.
• Rahi-Tamm. Aigi. Weiner. Amir. December 2012. Getting to Know You: Soviet Surveillance and Its Uses, 1939–1957. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. Slavica Publishers. 13. 1, New Series. 5–45. 10.1353/kri.2012.0011. 154566121. 27 November 2021. Stanford University.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Amir Weiner. CREES. Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies. 27 November 2021.
2. Web site: Amir Weiner. Wilson Center. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. 27 November 2021.
3. Book: Weiner, Amir. Making Sense of War: The Second World War and the Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution. 14 April 2002. Princeton University Press. 9780691095431. 27 November 2021.
4. Weindling. Paul. 1 June 2006. Amir Weiner, Landscaping the Human Garden: Twentieth‐Century Population Management in a Comparative Framework. The Journal of Modern History. University of Chicago Press. 78. 2. 476–478. 10.1086/505816. 0022-2801.
5. Book: Weiner, Amir. Landscaping the Human Garden: Twentieth-Century Population Management in a Comparative Framework. 29 May 2003. Stanford University Press. 9780804746229. 1st hardcover. 27 November 2021.
6. Web site: Amir Weiner. Department of History. Stanford University. 27 November 2021.
7. Weiner. Amir. January 2002. The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression (review). Journal of Interdisciplinary History. MIT Press. 32. 3. 450–452. 10.1162/002219502753364263. 3656222. 142217169. Project MUSE. 27 November 2021.
8. Weiner. Amir. 15 December 2012. Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands. Cahiers du monde russe. Russie – Empire russe – Union soviétique et États indépendants. Editions de l'E.H.E.S.S.. 53/54. 10.4000/monderusse.7904. 1252-6576. OpenEdition Journals. free. 27 November 2021.