**Eric D. Weitz *(1953-2021) was Distinguished Professor of History at City College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He was also the author of Weimar Germany: Promise and * Tragedy, which was named a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice; * A Century of Genocide: Utopias of...

**Eric D. Weitz *(1953-2021) was Distinguished Professor of History at City College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He was also the author of Weimar Germany: Promise and * Tragedy, which was named a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice; * A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation;and Creating German * Communism, 1890-1990: From Popular Protests to Socialist State (all Princeton).