Bøger af Peter (University of California

This accessible textbook examines political, social, and cultural developments in the Soviet Union - from the revolution, through the years of the New Economic Policies, and into the Stalinist order and the post-Soviet period. The third edition includes substantial new material, discussing the challenges Russia faces in the era of Putin.

This book presents the oceanography and mathematics necessary to develop a practical system to interpret the behaviour of the oceans.

The Coming of the Holocaust aims to help readers understand the circumstances that made the Holocaust possible. Peter Kenez shows that three preconditions had to exist for the genocide to occur: modern anti-Semitism; an extremist group taking control of a powerful modern state; and the context of a major war.

This 2006 book describes in detail the establishment of a Communist regime in Hungary. Peter Kenez describes the methods of Communist conquest of power in one country in Eastern Europe and therefore allows us to better understand the origin of the Cold War.

This book, first published in 2002, is an introduction for both the student and general reader to the notion that American Indian societies had vital interests in interpreting and transmitting their own histories in their own ways. Separate discussions of legends and oral histories illustrate how various Indian peoples related and commented upon their changing times.

This work explores various forms of oppression that plague contemporary society. Through the analyses and reflections of theorists and social activists it brings together, under a common project of human liberation, critical voices from around the globe.