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“peter kenez”

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  • Red Advance, White Defeat

    Civil War in South Russia 1919–1920

    by Peter Kenez ...
    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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Red Attack, White Resistance

    Civil War in South Russia, 1918

    by Peter Kenez ...
    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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to Its Legacy

    by Peter Kenez ...
    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 ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Radical Jewish Politics

    A Global Perspective

    by Nathaniel Deutsch, Alma Rachel Heckman, Tony Michels, Anna Elena Torres, Bob Weinberg, Dario Miccoli, Michael Rom, Rami Ginat0, Michael Casper1, Milton Shain2, Richard Mendelsohn3, Kamilia Rahmouni4, Peter Kenez5, Arie Dubnov6, Kostis Karpozilos7, Paris Papamichos Chronakis8, Orit Bashkin9, Avery Weinman0, Pierre-Jean Le Foll-Luciani1, Jane Theresa Kuntz2, Lior Sternfeld3 ...
    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 ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • The Coming of the Holocaust

    From Antisemitism to Genocide

    by Peter Kenez ...
    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 ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Before the Uprising

    Hungary under Communism, 1949–1956

    by Peter Kenez ...
    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? ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

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    Thousands of European intellectuals fled from fascism to America in the days leading up to World War II. They had tremendous obstacles, but many of them found success and made meaningful contributions. Historian Allan Mitchell knew five notable scholars of history who escaped, and he recounts in vivid detail their early careers and their successes as historians of Europe. He provides biographies ... Read more

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  • They Dared Return

    The True Story of Jewish Spies Behind the Lines in Nazi Germany

    by Patrick K. O'Donnell ...
    "A true-life companion to Quentin Tarantino's. . . . WWII movie Inglorious Basterds . . . Quick-paced and immediate, with many satisfying moments." — Publishers WeeklyAt the height of World War II, with the Third Reich's final solution in full operation, a small group of Jews who had barely escaped the Nazis did the unthinkable: They went back. Spies now, these men took on a dangerous mission be ... Read more

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  • A Special Brand of Courage

    A Mother and Her Children’S Remarkable Escape from Nazi Germany

    by Krystyna Louw ...
    The story of an extraordinary woman who refuses to succumb to the inevitable and flees Nazi occupied Poland with two childrena journey that brought her love, betrayal and miraculously narrow escapes. ... Read more

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  • The Beautiful Beast: The Life & Crimes of SS-Aufseherin Irma Grese

    by Daniel Patrick Brown ...
    "The Beautiful Beast" documents in meticulous detail the extraordinary and frightening biography of Irma Grese. Born in a tiny farming community fifty miles north of Berlin, she became the ultimate feminine representative of the Hitlerian vision of the warrior-youth;indeed, with her blonde hair and strikingly blue eyes, Grese embodied all the physical characteristics of the idealized Nazi youth! ... Read more

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  • The Girl in the Green Sweater

    A Life in Holocaust's Shadow

    by Krystyna Chiger, Daniel Paisner ...
    Based on the true story explored in the Academy Award–nominated film, In Darkness, this holocaust memoir is "a gripping account of survival and friendship" ( Booklist).In 1943, with Lvov's 150,000 Jews having been exiled, killed, or forced into ghettos and facing extermination, a group of Polish Jews daringly sought refuge in the city's sewer system. The last surviving member this group, Krystyna ... Read more

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  • Elly: My True Story of the Holocaust

    by Elly Gross ...
    Told in short, gripping chapters, this is an unforgettable true story of survival. The author was featured in Steven Spielberg's Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. At just 15, her mother, and brother were taken from their Romanian town to the Auschwitz-II/Birkenau concentration camp. When they arrived at Auschwitz, a soldier waved Elly to the right; her mother and brother to the ... Read more

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