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Peter Kenez

Peter Kenez   
Peter Kenez
    Title:  Professor
    Type:  Faculty Member
    Concentration:  Europe
    Email:  kenez@ucsc.edu
    Phone:  (831) 459-2956 Office
(831) 459-2555 Message
    Office:  279 Stevenson
    Office Hours:  On leave Fall 2009
    Personal Page:  http://people.ucsc.edu/~kenez

Courses Taught 
HIS-175A-01 - Russian History, Medieval
HIS-175B-01 - Russian History: Imperial
HIS-175C-01 - Russian History: 20th Century
HIS-175D-01 - History of Soviet Film
HIS-196N-01 - Eastern European Jewish Social History
HIS-196O-01 - Russian Revolution, 1917-1932
HIS-196P-01 - Hitler and Stalin
HIS-250B-01 - Readings in European Social and Cultural History, 1789-Present
HIS-70C-01 - Modern European History, 1914-Present
HIS-80W-01 - The Holocaust: Destruction of European Jewry

Research Focus 
Russian history, Eastern Europe, 20th-century Europe, Soviet film

Education History 
Ph.D., Harvard University

Selected Publications 
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, Second Edition. 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.

Varieties of Fear: Growing Up Jewish under Nazism and Communism. Washington, D.C.: American University Press, 1995. San Jose, Calif.: Authors Choice Press, 2001.

The Birth of the Propaganda State: Soviet Methods of Mass Mobilization, 1917-1929. Cambridge and 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.