Show for June 19, 2011. Historian Peter Kenez.
Peter Kenez has written about some of the watershed events of the 20th century in books such as A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End. He’s also witnessed some of that history first-hand. We sat down to talk about his very interesting life. Though Peter in his self-effacing way tends to downplay the drama, the story is plenty compelling: growing up Jewish in Nazi- and then Soviet-controlled Hungary, fleeing Hungary after the abortive revolution of 1956 and starting a new life in the U.S. We also discussed his book-in-progress on the Holocaust.
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