Amir Weiner 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 at Stanford, and his research includes the KGB and the Soviet Union's surveillance state.
His forthcoming book At Home with the KGB: A New History of the Soviet Security Service, will be published by Yale University Press in 2023. Amir Weiner will begin his lecture for the KSE with a new book on KGB, which contains materials from the archives and interviews with former members of the Committee for State Security, and will move on to his own vision of Putin's war in Ukraine.
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