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 A World Divided: The GlobalStruggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States; A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation; and Creating GermanCommunism, 1890-1990: From Popular Protests to Socialist State (all Princeton).