Eric Weitz

Boston University, Ph.D., 1983, Modern European History.
Graduate study at Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, with Prof. Dr. Hans Mommsen, 1979-80.
Boston University, M.A., 1976, Modern European History.
State University of New York at Binghamton, B.A., 1974, History.

Modern Germany
Social and Intellectual
Modern Russia/Soviet Union
Early Modern Germany

Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007), xii, 435 pp., paperback ed. 2009: 2nd ed. with new chapter, "The Weimar Legacy: A Global Perspective," 2013.
     Chinese edition (fothcoming 2012).
     Polish edition: (Cracow: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego, forthcoming 2012).
     Italian edition: La Germania di Weimar: Utopia e tragedia (Turin: Einaudi, 2008)
     Swedish edition: Weimartyskland: Löfte och tragedia (Stockholm: Dialogos, 2009)
     Spanish edition: La Alemania de Weimar: Presagio y tragedia (Madrid: Turner Noema, 2009).
     Reviews in New York Times Book Review, New York Sun, Economist, Financial Times, Times Literary Supplement, London Review of Books, Harper's, Book Forum, Philadelphia Inquirer, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Arkansas Democrat Gazette, Christian Science Monitor, Jerusalem Reporter, Commonwealth, La Repubblica, among others.
"Editor's Choice" in New York Times Book Review, 21 October 2007; "The Year in Books – History"
selection, Financial Times, 8 December 2007; "The Best Books of 2007" selection, Independent, 30
December 2007; starred reviews in Publisher's Weekly and Library Journal.

A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003), viii, 360 pp., paperback ed. 2005.
     Selected as a Chioce Outstanding Academic Title for 2003.

Creating German Communism, 1890-1990: From Popular Protests to Socialist State (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997), xviii, 445 pp., paperback ed. 1997.
     Honorable Mention, Allan Sharlin Memorial Award of the Social Science History Association, 1998.

Popular Communism: Political Strategies and Social Histories in the Formation of the German, French, and Italian Communist Parties, 1919-1948. Western Societies Program Occasional Paper number 31 (Ithaca: Cornell University Institute for European Studies, 1992), 84 pp.