Amir Weiner Editor & Author

A native of Latvia, Lazar Fleishman has published and edited numerous works on Russian and East European history, literature and culture. He is Professor of Stanford University and has also taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, University of California, Berkeley, Harvard, Princeton and other universities in the U.S. and Europe.  

Amir Weiner teaches history at Stanford University. He is the author of Making Sense of War, Landscaping the Human Garden and numerous articles and edited volumes on the impact of World War II on the Soviet polity, the social history of WWII and Soviet frontier politics. His forthcoming book, The KGB: Ruthless Sword, Imperfect Shield, will be published by Yale University Press in 2019.