Amir Weiner in Slovenia and Croatia

Amir Weiner’s research concerns Soviet history with an emphasis on the interaction between totalitarian politics, ideology, nationality, and society. His first book, Making Sense of War, analyzed the role and impact of the cataclysm of the Second World War on Soviet society and politics. His current project, Wild West, Window to the West, engages the territories between the Baltic and Black Seas that were annexed by the Soviet Union in 1939–40, from the initial occupation to present. Professor Weiner has taught courses on modern Russian history, the Second World War, the origins of totalitarianism, war and society in modern Europe, modern Ukrainian history, and history and memory.

• Associate professor, department of history, School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University, since 1995

• Co-director, Stanford’s Center for European Studies, 2006–2009

• Editor, Journal of Contemporary European History, since 1995

• Author, The KGB: Ruthless Sword, Imperfect Shield (Yale University Press, forthcoming in 2019) and Making Sense of War: The Second World War and the Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution (Princeton University Press, 2001)

• Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching, School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University, 2002

• BA, summa cum laude, Russian studies and international relations, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1987

• MA, 1990, and PhD, 1995—both history, Columbia University