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Peter Kenez

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Peter Kenez (Hungarian: Kenéz Péter; born 1937) is a Hungarian-American historian specializing in Russian and Eastern European history and politics.

Life

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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

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  • 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

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  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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