Amir Weiner
Biographic Data
| ID | 3744654 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amir Weiner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amir |
| FAMILY NAME | Weiner |
| SIGNATURE | WEINER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Baltic states and the end of the Cold War
‘Estonia truly punches above its weight,’ President Obama complimented the small Baltic state in September 2014 in reference to its domestic and international achievements. The same can be said for
Mark Sandle, Igor Cașu, Leonid Brezhnev in Moldavia, 1950-52
This is the first article dealing specifically with Brezhnev in Soviet Moldavia. The article draws mainly on recently disclosed files from the Archive of the Social-Political Organizations of the Republic of Moldova, the former archive of the Central Committee of Communist Party of Moldavia. The authors are trying to understand the importance of the period when Brezhnev served as First Secretary of Central Committee of Moldavia from 1950 to 1952 …
Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands
Bloodlands or a Bloody Nose to History
Déjà Vu All Over Again
This article explores the complex dynamics that informed Soviet policies on the western frontier – the territories stretching between the Baltic and Black Seas annexed by the Soviets in 1939–40 – and involves several interlocking aspects: the permeability of borders prone to irredentist pressures by socialist satellites, mass tourism from the West and the Soviet bloc, and the increasing flow of information from foreign media sources; the conflict…
The Empires Pay a Visit
Henry Abramson, A Prayer for the Government
Nothing but Certainty
Eric D. Weitz argues that the Soviet Union promoted the development of national institutions and consciousness and explicidy rejected the ideology of race. Yet traces of racial politics crept into Soviet nationalities policies, especially between 1937 and 1953. In the Stalin period particular populations were endowed with immutable traits that every member of the group possessed and that were passed from one generation to the next. Recent scholar…
In the Long Shadow of War
“I would rather hang myself [than] start erecting memorials to those butchers,” exclaimed a Belarussian veteran of World War II upon learning that his government had finally reached an agreement with Germany to bury the remains of fallen German soldiers, more than half a century after the end of the war. Others shrugged with disbelief at the sight of a color catalogue with pictures of clean and orderly German military cemeteries in other countrie…
Making sense of war
"In making Sense of War, Amir Weiner reconceptualizes the entire historical experience of the Soviet Union from a new perspective, that of World War II. Breaking with the conventional interpretation that views World War II as a post-revolutionary addendum, Weiner situates this event at the crux of the development of the Soviet - not just the Stalinist - system. Through a richly detailed look at Soviet society as a whole, and at one Ukrainian regi…
The Making of a Dominant Myth
W orld War II was a watershed in the articulation of political and ethnonational identities within the Soviet polity. The myth of the war became a point of departure in the self-identity and conduct of large segments of the population and the body politic, including those whose identity was allegedly shaped by the profound transformations of the Civil War, collectivization and industrialization. The experience of the war became a yardstick by whi…
Making sense of war
"In making Sense of War, Amir Weiner reconceptualizes the entire historical experience of the Soviet Union from a new perspective, that of World War II. Breaking with the conventional interpretation that views World War II as a post-revolutionary addendum, Weiner situates this event at the crux of the development of the Soviet - not just the Stalinist - system. Through a richly detailed look at Soviet society as a whole, and at one Ukrainian regi…
The Making of a Dominant Myth
W orld War II was a watershed in the articulation of political and ethnonational identities within the Soviet polity. The myth of the war became a point of departure in the self-identity and conduct of large segments of the population and the body politic, including those whose identity was allegedly shaped by the profound transformations of the Civil War, collectivization and industrialization. The experience of the war became a yardstick by whi…
Déjà Vu All Over Again
This article explores the complex dynamics that informed Soviet policies on the western frontier – the territories stretching between the Baltic and Black Seas annexed by the Soviets in 1939–40 – and involves several interlocking aspects: the permeability of borders prone to irredentist pressures by socialist satellites, mass tourism from the West and the Soviet bloc, and the increasing flow of information from foreign media sources; the conflict…
The Empires Pay a Visit
Nothing but Certainty
Eric D. Weitz argues that the Soviet Union promoted the development of national institutions and consciousness and explicidy rejected the ideology of race. Yet traces of racial politics crept into Soviet nationalities policies, especially between 1937 and 1953. In the Stalin period particular populations were endowed with immutable traits that every member of the group possessed and that were passed from one generation to the next. Recent scholar…
Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands
Bloodlands or a Bloody Nose to History
The Making of a Dominant Myth
W orld War II was a watershed in the articulation of political and ethnonational identities within the Soviet polity. The myth of the war became a point of departure in the self-identity and conduct of large segments of the population and the body politic, including those whose identity was allegedly shaped by the profound transformations of the Civil War, collectivization and industrialization. The experience of the war became a yardstick by whi…
Making sense of war
"In making Sense of War, Amir Weiner reconceptualizes the entire historical experience of the Soviet Union from a new perspective, that of World War II. Breaking with the conventional interpretation that views World War II as a post-revolutionary addendum, Weiner situates this event at the crux of the development of the Soviet - not just the Stalinist - system. Through a richly detailed look at Soviet society as a whole, and at one Ukrainian regi…
In the Long Shadow of War
“I would rather hang myself [than] start erecting memorials to those butchers,” exclaimed a Belarussian veteran of World War II upon learning that his government had finally reached an agreement with Germany to bury the remains of fallen German soldiers, more than half a century after the end of the war. Others shrugged with disbelief at the sight of a color catalogue with pictures of clean and orderly German military cemeteries in other countrie…
Henry Abramson, A Prayer for the Government
Nothing but Certainty
Eric D. Weitz argues that the Soviet Union promoted the development of national institutions and consciousness and explicidy rejected the ideology of race. Yet traces of racial politics crept into Soviet nationalities policies, especially between 1937 and 1953. In the Stalin period particular populations were endowed with immutable traits that every member of the group possessed and that were passed from one generation to the next. Recent scholar…
Déjà Vu All Over Again
This article explores the complex dynamics that informed Soviet policies on the western frontier – the territories stretching between the Baltic and Black Seas annexed by the Soviets in 1939–40 – and involves several interlocking aspects: the permeability of borders prone to irredentist pressures by socialist satellites, mass tourism from the West and the Soviet bloc, and the increasing flow of information from foreign media sources; the conflict…
The Empires Pay a Visit
Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands
Bloodlands or a Bloody Nose to History
Mark Sandle, Igor Cașu, Leonid Brezhnev in Moldavia, 1950-52
This is the first article dealing specifically with Brezhnev in Soviet Moldavia. The article draws mainly on recently disclosed files from the Archive of the Social-Political Organizations of the Republic of Moldova, the former archive of the Central Committee of Communist Party of Moldavia. The authors are trying to understand the importance of the period when Brezhnev served as First Secretary of Central Committee of Moldavia from 1950 to 1952 …
The Baltic states and the end of the Cold War
‘Estonia truly punches above its weight,’ President Obama complimented the small Baltic state in September 2014 in reference to its domestic and international achievements. The same can be said for
Political science (8 works) · History (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Economic history (5 works) · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (4 works) · Soviet and Russian History (4 works)