Peter Kenez

Esta obra analisa não só as transformações políticas por que passou a URSS durante a sua existência, mas também a evolução social e cultural do país neste período. O livro identifica as tensões sociais e as inconsistências que estiveram na origem da mudança de regime no começo do século XX, culminando na Revolução de Outubro de 1917. Para Kenez há três grandes períodos que merecem especial atenção: a evolução da União Soviética durante toda a década de 20 - os anos das Novas Políticas económicas - até à era estalinista; a nova ordem pós- Estaline e a tentativa ambígua de os líderes soviéticos chegarem a um entendimento pacífico com o ocidente, tendo sempre a Guerra Fria como contexto todavia; e ainda o período Pós-soviético.

História da União Soviética - 2a Edição

Civil War in South Russia 1919-1920

Red Advance, White Defeat

Based on copious archival research and a close reading of published memoirs, and mixing careful narrative with judicious analysis, Kenez provides the definitive history of the anti-Bolshevik movement in South Russia.

Civil War in South Russia 1918

Red Attack, White Resistance

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

Christopher Mount

The exhibition Stenberg Brothers: Constructing a Revolution in Soviet Design, organized by Christopher Mount, Assistant Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design, is the first critical survey of the work of these two seminal figures in the history of twentieth-century graphic design.

Constructing a Revolution in Soviet Design

Stenberg Brothers

Richard Stites

Abbott Gleason

In the tumultuous years after the revolution of 1917, the traditional cutlure of Imperial Russia was both destroyed and preserved, as a new Soviet culture began to take shape. This book focuses on the interaction between the emerging political and cultural policies of the Soviet regime and the deeply held traditional values of the worker and peasant masses.

Experiment and Order in the Russian Revolution

Bolshevik Culture

In this updated edition of his classic text, Kenez covers the roots of Soviet cinema in the film heritage of pre-Revolutionary Russia, tracing the changes generated by the Revolution of 1917.

Cinema and Soviet Society from the Revolution to the Death of Stalin

This is an absorbing memoir by a major historian of the Soviet Union, which relates a harrowing youth and coming of age. It is at once moving and matter of fact. It accomplishes the goals of good autobiographical writing: the illumination of some larger truth by focusing on the smaller and more personal realm of life.

Growing Up Jewish Under Nazism and Communism

Varieties of Fear

The second of a two-volume history and analysis of the Russian Civil War, this volume covers events spanning 1919 to 1920. “The republication of Professor Kenez’s classic volumes is to be warmly welcomed. Based on copious archival research and a close reading of published memoirs and mixing careful narrative with judicious analysis, they still provide the definitive history of the anti-Bolshevik movement in South Russia. Their original publication provided an inspiration for a generation of scholars of the Russian Civil War; the new edition will certainly inspire another. The armchair historian too, as well as all those interested in the fate of contemporary Russia, will find much to admire and much to ponder upon in this well told tale of one of the most bloody and tragic episodes in recent European history.” —Jonathan D. Smele, University of London “The profession will be delighted to learn that this classic study of the Russian Civil War (1917-21) on its most crucial battleground is again available. Kenez’s work was the first in any language to cut through the rhetoric of partisan memory and historiography in order to present a complicated and balanced view of both sides. While demythologizing Soviet historical explanations, Kenez is especially keen in displaying the enormous variety of the “White,” or anti-Communist, movement and analyzing the causes of its defeat.” —Richard Stites, Georgetown University Second edition with an updated bibliography.

Civil War in South Russia 1919–1920

Murray Baumgarten

Bruce Allan Thompson

History, Ideology, Discourse

Varieties of Antisemitism

Kenez envisions that revolution as a crisis of authority that posed the question, "Who shall govern Russia?" This question was resolved with the creation of the Soviet Union.

A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End

This is the first book in any language to describe in detail the establishment of the communist regime in Hungary. Hungary was the last ally of Nazi Germany, and as such suffered dreadful destruction in course of the fighting during the last year of the war. The war discredited the political and social elite and gave opportunity for a new beginning. Early optimism in democratic circles, however, quickly dissipated. The communists, who had negligible indigenous support, with the help of the Soviet Army in a short time managed to destroy any organized opposition to their taking power. .

The Establishment of the Communist Regime in Hungary, 1944-1948

Hungary from the Nazis to the Soviets

French Jews -- Jews of the Russian Empire and of the Soviet Union -- Hungarian Jews -- National Socialism and Jews -- Propaganda -- What to to do with the Jews? -- Ghettos in Poland, 1939-1941 -- The Holocaust in the Soviet Union -- The Romanian Holocaust -- Germany, 1942 -- The Holocaust in Western Europe -- The last island: Hungary -- Extermination camps -- Afterthoughts.

From Antisemitism to Genocide

The Coming of the Holocaust

An examination of political, social and cultural developments in the Soviet Union. The book identifies the social tensions and political inconsistencies that spurred radical change in the government of Russia, from the turn of the century to the revolution of 1917. Kenez envisions that revolution as a crisis of authority that posed the question, 'Who shall govern Russia?' This question was resolved with the creation of the Soviet Union. Kenez traces the development of the Soviet Union from the Revolution, through the 1920s, the years of the New Economic Policies and into the Stalinist order. He shows how post-Stalin Soviet leaders struggled to find ways to rule the country without using Stalin's methods but also without openly repudiating the past, and to negotiate a peaceful but antipathetic coexistence with the capitalist West. In this second edition, he also examines the post-Soviet period, tracing Russia's development up to the time of publication.

This concise yet comprehensive textbook examines political, social, and cultural developments in the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet period. It begins by identifying the social tensions and political inconsistencies that spurred radical change in Russia's government, from the turn of the century to the revolution of 1917. Peter Kenez presents this revolution as a crisis of authority that the creation of the Soviet Union resolved. The text traces the progress of the Soviet Union through the 1920s, the years of the New Economic Policies, and into the Stalinist order. It illustrates how post-Stalin Soviet leaders struggled to find ways to rule the country without using Stalin's methods - but also without openly repudiating the past - and to negotiate a peaceful but antipathetic coexistence with the capitalist West. This updated third edition includes substantial new material, discussing the challenges Russia currently faces in the era of Putin.

A History of the Soviet Union From the Beginning to Its Legacy

The political influences on Soviet cinema are traced from its pre-revolutionary heritage, through the Revolution and the golden years of the late 1920s through Second World War liberalization and the extraordinary repression of Stalin final years.The political influences on Soviet cinema are traced from its pre-revolutionary heritage, through the Revolution and the golden years of the late 1920s through Second World War liberalization and the extraordinary repression of Stalin final years.

Peter Kenez

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