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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41412004 Title: Reflections on a ravaged century Author: Robert Conquest Publisher: New York : Norton, ©2000. ISBN/ISSN: 0393048187 9780393048186 OCLC:41412004

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Reflections on a ravaged century

Author:	Robert Conquest
Publisher:	New York : Norton, ©2000.
Edition/Format:	Print book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
Summary:	"The main responsibility for our century's cataclysms, Conquest maintains, lies not so much in impersonal economic and social forces as in the huge mental distortions produced by ideologies like revolutionary Marxism and National Socialism. The final, sobering chapters of Reflections on a Ravaged Century concern themselves with some coming storms, notably that of the European Union, which Conquest believes is an Read more...
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Subjects	History, Modern -- 20th century. History, Modern. Oorlogen. View all subjects
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Material Type:	Internet resource
Document Type:	Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors:	Robert Conquest Find more information about:
ISBN:	0393048187 9780393048186
OCLC Number:	41412004
Description:	xv, 317 pages ; 25 cm
Contents:	History's battleground -- The culture of sanity -- The Marxist irruption: how and why -- The nation: hope and hysteria (nationality, nationalism, Fascism, national socialism) -- Totalitarian Party--totalitarian state -- Into the Soviet Morass -- The great error: Soviet myths and western minds -- Launching the Cold War -- Missiles and mind-sets: the Cold War continues -- Scar tissue: a note on post-Soviet Russia -- In a wayward west -- "The answer is education" -- Halfway to one world: imperialism, anti-imperialism -- The "Europe" idea -- A more fruitful unity (the Oceanic perspective).
Responsibility:	Robert Conquest.
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The author presents the modern ideologies and distorted philosophies that have corrupted the 20th century and sent millions to the slaughterhouse. Read more...

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