Peter Kenez

Peter Kenez (born as Péter Kenéz in 1937) is a historian specializing in Russian and Eastern European history and politics.

Life

Peter Kenez was born and grew up in Pesterzsébet, Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary . His father was arrested in March 1944 after Operation Margarethe and deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp and killed.[1] His mother fled to Budapest with him, where they survived the persecution of the Jews by the Eichmann-Kommando and the Arrow Cross Party.

After the Hungarian uprising of 1956 he fled to the US. He received his PhD from Harvard University under the advisor Richard Pipes.[2] He has taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz[3] since 1966, where he is currently Professor Emeritus.[4] He also teaches courses on Soviet cinema and an interdisciplinary course on the Holocaust with literature professor Murray Baumgarten.[5]

Books
  • The Coming of the Holocaust: From Antisemitism to Genocide, Cambridge University Press, 2013.[6]
  • Hungary from the Nazis to the Soviets: The Establishment of the Communist Regime in Hungary, 1944–1948, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2006.[7]
  • Cinema and Soviet Society from the Revolution to the Death of Stalin, London and New York, I.B. Tauris, 2001.[8]
  • A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End, New York, Cambridge University Press, 1999; 2nd ed., 2006.[9]
  • Varieties of Fear: Growing Up Jewish under Nazism and Communism, Washington, American University Press, 1995.
  • Cinema and Soviet Society, 1917–1953, Cambridge University Press, 1992.[10]
  • Bolshevik Culture: Experiment and Order in the Russian Revolution, edited with Abbott Gleason and Richard Stites, Indiana University Press, 1985.[11]
  • The Birth of the Propaganda State: Soviet Methods of Mass Mobilization, 1917–1929, Cambridge et New York, Cambridge University Press, 1985.[12]
  • Civil War in South Russia, 1919–1920: The Defeat of the Whites, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1977.[13]
  • Civil War in South Russia, 1918: The First Year of the Volunteer Army, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1971.[14]

References
  1. "Instructor Bio". Retrieved 26 March 2018.
  2. N. G. O. Pereira, "Revisiting the Revisionists and Their Critics," Historian (2010) 72#1 pp 23-37 at p 28.
  3. "Peter Kenez". University of California, Santa Cruz. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
  4. "Peter Kenez website". University of California, Santa Cruz. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
  5. "UCSC Holocaust chair endowed: It's 'not just a Jewish problem'". j. the Jewish news weekly of Northern California. 3 November 1995. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
  6. Reviews of The Coming of the Holocaust: From Antisemitism to Genocide: JSTOR 43662108; doi:10.1093/gerhis/ghu103
  7. Reviews of Hungary from the Nazis to the Soviets: The Establishment of the Communist Regime in Hungary, 1944-1948: JSTOR 27668675; JSTOR 40109934; JSTOR 40007266; JSTOR 20060310; JSTOR 10.1086/593447; JSTOR 40264201; JSTOR 25479360; JSTOR 40543079
  8. Reviews of Cinema and Soviet Society from the Revolution to the Death of Stalin: JSTOR 4213391; JSTOR 3664207
  9. Reviews of A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End: JSTOR 153602; JSTOR 579072; JSTOR 24450587; JSTOR 2679293; JSTOR 41050564
  10. Reviews of Cinema and Soviet Society, 1917-1953: JSTOR 131301; JSTOR 24448632; JSTOR 2500170; JSTOR 2166744; JSTOR 41052995; JSTOR 1213111; JSTOR 40921486; JSTOR 308568; JSTOR 24657355
  11. Reviews of Bolshevik Culture: Experiment and Order in the Russian Revolution: JSTOR 20100313; JSTOR 41048047; JSTOR 27671790; JSTOR 151156; JSTOR 130142; JSTOR 307020; JSTOR 24446899; JSTOR 2499013; JSTOR 3791045
  12. Reviews of The Birth of the Propaganda State: Soviet Methods of Mass Mobilization 1917-1929: JSTOR 40868627; JSTOR 2498352; JSTOR 20042739; JSTOR 41047934; JSTOR 151148; JSTOR 24416024; JSTOR 24657687; JSTOR 1860024; JSTOR 3770084; JSTOR 130067
  13. Reviews of Civil War in South Russia, 1919-1920: The Defeat of the Whites: JSTOR 1854802; JSTOR 492590; JSTOR 150400; JSTOR 24413675; JSTOR 1042656; JSTOR 40867422; JSTOR 129089; JSTOR 2497094; JSTOR 24649609; JSTOR 2638650; JSTOR 569412
  14. Reviews of Civil War in South Russia, 1918: The First Year of the Volunteer Army: JSTOR 150956; JSTOR 1959319; JSTOR 41044872; JSTOR 1877645; JSTOR 128332; JSTOR 1868797; JSTOR 2493789


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