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American historian (born 1961)
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
Weiner, Amir (2002).
Making Sense of War: The Second World War and the Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution (paperback ed.). Princeton University Press.
ISBN
9780691095431 . Retrieved 27 November 2021 – via Google Books.
Weiner, Amir (2003).
Landscaping the Human Garden: Twentieth-century Population Management in a Comparative Framework (illustrated ed.). Stanford University Press.
ISBN
9780804746304 . Retrieved 27 November 2021 – via Google Books.
Weiner, Amir (May 2006).
"Déjà Vu All Over Again: Prague Spring, Romanian Summer, and Soviet Autumn on Russia's Western Frontier" . Contemporary European History . 15 (2). Cambridge University Press: 159–194.
doi :
10.1017/S0960777306003195 .
S2CID
162975402 . Retrieved 27 November 2021 – via Stanford University.
Weiner, Amir (June 2006).
"The Empires Pay a Visit: Gulag Returnees, East European Rebellions, and Soviet Frontier Politics" . The Journal of Modern History . 78 (2). University of Chicago Press: 333–376.
doi :
10.1086/505800 .
JSTOR
10.1086/505800 .
S2CID
155024744 . Retrieved 27 November 2021 – via Stanford University.
Weiner, Amir (2006).
"Something to Die For, A Lot to Kill For: The Soviet System and the Brutalization of Warfare" . In Kassimeres, George (ed.). The Barbarisation of Warfare (hardback ed.). Hurst Publishing.
ISBN
9781850657996 . Retrieved 27 November 2021 – via 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 . 86 (2, The Relaunch of the Soviet Project, 1945–64). Modern Humanities Research Association: 208–231.
JSTOR
25479197 . Retrieved 27 November 2021 – via Stanford University.
Weiner, Amir (2010).
"Foreign Media and the Soviet Western Frontier: Accounts of the Hungarian and Czechoslovak Crises" . In Johnson, Ross A.; Parta, Eugene R. (eds.). Cold War Broadcasting: Impact on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe (hardcover ed.). Central European University Press.
ISBN
9789639776807 .
JSTOR
10.7829/j.ctt1282v9 . Retrieved 27 November 2021 – via 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 . 13 (1, New Series). Slavica Publishers: 5–45.
doi :
10.1353/kri.2012.0011 .
S2CID
154566121 . Retrieved 27 November 2021 – via Stanford University.
References
^
"Amir Weiner" . CREES . Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies. Retrieved 27 November 2021 .
^
"Amir Weiner" . Wilson Center . Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Retrieved 27 November 2021 .
^ Weiner, Amir (14 April 2002).
Making Sense of War: The Second World War and the Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution . Princeton University Press.
ISBN
9780691095431 . Retrieved 27 November 2021 .
^ Weindling, Paul (1 June 2006). "Amir Weiner, Landscaping the Human Garden: Twentieth‐Century Population Management in a Comparative Framework". The Journal of Modern History . 78 (2). University of Chicago Press: 476–478.
doi :
10.1086/505816 .
ISSN
0022-2801 .
^ Weiner, Amir (29 May 2003).
Landscaping the Human Garden: Twentieth-Century Population Management in a Comparative Framework (1st hardcover ed.). Stanford University Press.
ISBN
9780804746229 . Retrieved 27 November 2021 .
^
"Amir Weiner" . Department of History . Stanford University. Retrieved 27 November 2021 .
^ Weiner, Amir (January 2002).
"The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression (review)" . Journal of Interdisciplinary History . 32 (3). MIT Press: 450–452.
doi :
10.1162/002219502753364263 .
JSTOR
3656222 .
S2CID
142217169 . Retrieved 27 November 2021 – via Project MUSE.
^ Weiner, Amir (15 December 2012).
"Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands" . Cahiers du monde russe. Russie – Empire russe – Union soviétique et États indépendants (53/54). Editions de l'E.H.E.S.S.
doi :
10.4000/monderusse.7904 .
ISSN
1252-6576 . Retrieved 27 November 2021 – via OpenEdition Journals.
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