At Home With the KGB: A New History of the Soviet Security Service

Amir Weiner studies totalitarian movements and regimes with a focus on the Soviet polity; population politics; the Second World War; and modern mass violence. He is the Faculty Director of the Stanford Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies. Among his publications: Making Sense of War: The Second World War and the Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution (2002); “The Empires Pay a Visit: Gulag Returnees, East European Rebellions, and Soviet Frontier Politics” (2006); “Getting to Know You: Soviet Surveillance and Its Uses, 1939-1957” (2012).