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 th...

The years of 1949-1956 could be described as the gloomiest in modern Hungarian history, as the country's population lived under vicious totalitarian leadership. Eventually, the regime began to disintegrate, leading to the 1956 Hungarian Revolution - a critical moment in the history of the Cold War. But why did this revolution occur in Hungary, rather than any other countries in the Soviet bloc? Before the Uprising examines the specific social, economic, political, and intellectual characte...

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 inspira...

The first of a two-volume history and analysis of the Russian Civil War, this volume covers events in 1918."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 gene...

The Coming of the Holocaust aims to help readers understand the circumstances that made the Holocaust possible. Peter Kenez demonstrates that the occurrence of the Holocaust was not predetermined as a result of modern history but instead was the result of contingencies. He shows that three preconditions had to exist for the genocide to take place: modern anti-Semitism, meaning Jews had to become economically and culturally successful in the post-French Revolution world to arouse fear rathe...

For the first time, this volume centers the rich but little known history of radical Jewish politics in the Middle East and North Africa and puts it into conversation with developments in the Americas, South Africa, Soviet Asia, and Europe. Jews were attracted to radical politics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to transform the societies they lived in but also out of a deep desire to belong. Somewhat paradoxically, then, radical politics held out the enticing possibility...

Kenéz Péter izgalmas kalandregényének második részében újabb kalandokkal folytatódik a sodró lendületű, egyedülállóan szövevényes történet. Mike, miután eldöntötte, hogy akár saját életének a feláldozása árán is kiszabadítja Nicole-t, a törzsi ünnep után elindul, hogy megkeresse őt.A dzsungel mélyén hamarosan szembekerül üldözőivel, és felveszi velük az egyenlőtlen, de elkerülhetetlen harcot, hogy még egyszer élve láthassa kedvesét. Megpróbáltatásai során sohasem téveszti szem elől ...

Az emberiség eddigi történetének legnagyobb felfedezése, az ember legfőbb álmának beteljesülése áll a szerző könyvének fókuszában. De valóban áldás-e ez a felfedezés fajunk jövőjére nézve, ahogy elsőre gondolnánk? Vagy, ha jobban a dolgok mélyére ásunk, arra jövünk rá, hogy mégis inkább átok?Főhősünk, miután felismeri felfedezése igazi arcát, menekülni kényszerül, sarkában a kormánnyal és az alvilág leggátlástalanabb bandájával, hogy időt nyerjen tervének megvalósításához, amellyel ...