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Amir Weiner

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Amir Weiner
Born (1961-09-17) September 17, 1961 (age 63)
NationalityAmerican
Academic background
Alma materHebrew University of Jerusalem
Columbia University
Academic work
DisciplineSoviet history
InstitutionsStanford 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]

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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]

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  1. ^ "Amir Weiner". CREES. Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
  2. ^ "Amir Weiner". Wilson Center. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
  3. ^ 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.
  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. 78 (2). University of Chicago Press: 476–478. doi:10.1086/505816. ISSN 0022-2801.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ "Amir Weiner". Department of History. Stanford University. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ 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.