Theodore R. Weeks is professor of history at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He is the author of Nation and State in Late Imperial Russia and From Assimilation to Antisemitism. He is also author of Across the Revolutionary Divide and coauthor of Making Europe.
Vilnius Between Nations is a substantial scholarly achievement.
Weeks has distilled a vast multilingual literature, supplemented
with many printed and manuscript sources. He writes clearly in a
measured, humane tone, and makes every effort to be fair and
balanced in his judgments.
*Slavonic and East European Review*
Vilnius Between Nations is a well-written, meticulously researched,
fresh, and innovative contribution to our knowledge of the history
of Vilnius, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, and Eastern Europe in
general.
*Canadian Journal of History*
The book is truly edifying in the careful and enlightening
connections it makes between the local and the global, setting the
city of Vilnius in its rightful place on the stage of European
history.
*Journal of Modern History*
Only a scholar with Weeks's aptitude for languages could pull off a
project of this complexity, yet it is his impressive facility in
English that makes this important book a pleasure to read.
*Choice*
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