Peter Kenez
Encyclopedia
Peter Kenez is a historian
specializing in Russia
n history and Eastern Europe
. He also teaches courses on Soviet cinema and an interdisciplinary course on the Holocaust with literature professor Murray Baumgarten. He has taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz
since 1966.
He received his PhD from Harvard where his advisor was Richard Pipes
.
Historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...
specializing in Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
n history and Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is the eastern part of Europe. The term has widely disparate geopolitical, geographical, cultural and socioeconomic readings, which makes it highly context-dependent and even volatile, and there are "almost as many definitions of Eastern Europe as there are scholars of the region"...
. He also teaches courses on Soviet cinema and an interdisciplinary course on the Holocaust with literature professor Murray Baumgarten. He has taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz
University of California, Santa Cruz
The University of California, Santa Cruz, also known as UC Santa Cruz or UCSC, is a public, collegiate university; one of ten campuses in the University of California...
since 1966.
He received his PhD from Harvard where his advisor was Richard Pipes
Richard Pipes
Richard Edgar Pipes is an American academic who specializes in Russian history, particularly with respect to the Soviet Union...
.
Books
- Hungary from the Nazis to the Soviets: The Establishment of the Communist Regime in Hungary, 1944–1948, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End, New York, Cambridge University Press, deuxième édition, 2006.
- Cinema and Soviet Society from the Revolution to the Death of Stalin, Londres et New York, I.B. Tauris, 2001.
- A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End, New York, Cambridge University Press, 1999.
- Varieties of Fear: Growing Up Jewish under Nazism and Communism, Washington, American University Press, 1995.
- The Birth of the Propaganda State: Soviet Methods of Mass Mobilization, 1917-1929, Cambridge et New York, Cambridge University Press, 1985.
- Civil War in South Russia, 1919-1920: The Defeat of the Whites, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1977.
- Civil War in South Russia, 1918: The First Year of the Volunteer Army, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1971.