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Genre/Form: | Book |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert Conquest |
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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Abstract:
"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 economic, cultural, and geographical misconception divisive of the West and doomed to failure."--Jacket.
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