Peter Kenez
Peter Kenez is an historian specializing in Russian and Eastern European history and politics. He was born in Hungary and is a Holocaust survivor. 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, where he is currently Professor Emeritus. He received his PhD from Harvard where his advisor was Richard Pipes.Books
- The Coming of the Holocaust: From Antisemitism to Genocide, Cambridge University Press, 2013.
- Hungary from the Nazis to the Soviets: The Establishment of the Communist Regime in Hungary, 1944–1948, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- Cinema and Soviet Society from the Revolution to the Death of Stalin, London and New York, I.B. Tauris, 2001.
- A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End, New York, Cambridge University Press, 1999; 2nd ed., 2006.
- 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.
- Bolshevik Culture: Experiment and Order in the Russian Revolution, edited with Abbott Gleason and Richard Stites, Indiana University Press, 1985.
- 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.
