Peter Kenez (born 1937) is a historian specializing in Russian history and Eastern Europe. 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 He received his PhD from Harvard where his advisor was Richard Pipes.
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, New York, Cambridge University Press, deuxième édition, 2006.
Cinema and Soviet Society from the Revolution to the Death of Stalin, Londres et 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, American University Press, 1995.
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.
