Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Devil in HistoryCondition: NewEAN: 9780520282209ISBN: 9780520282209Publisher: University of California PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 03/14/2014Item Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 20mmItem Weight: 454gAuthor: Vladimir TismaneanuLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Communism, Fascism, and Some Lessons of the Twentieth CenturyISBN-10: 0520282205Description: The Devil in History is a provocative analysis of the relationship between communism and fascism. Reflecting the author's personal experiences within communist totalitarianism, this is a book about political passions, radicalism, utopian ideals, and their catastrophic consequences in the twentieth century's experiments in social engineering. Vladimir Tismaneanu brilliantly compares communism and fascism as competing, sometimes overlapping, and occasionally strikingly similar systems of political totalitarianism. He examines the inherent ideological appeal of these radical, revolutionary political movements, the visions of salvation and revolution they pursued, the value and types of charisma of leaders within these political movements, the place of violence within these systems, and their legacies in contemporary politics. The author discusses thinkers who have shaped contemporary understanding of totalitarian movements--people such as Hannah Arendt, Raymond Aron, Isaiah Berlin, Albert Camus, Francois Furet, Tony Judt, Ian Kershaw, Leszek Kolakowski, Richard Pipes, and Robert C. Tucker.As much a theoretical analysis of the practical philosophies of Marxism-Leninism and Fascism as it is a political biography of particular figures, this book deals with the incarnation of diabolically nihilistic principles of human subjugation and conditioning in the name of presumably pure and purifying goals. Ultimately, the author claims that no ideological commitment, no matter how absorbing, should ever prevail over the sanctity of human life. He comes to the conclusion that no party, movement, or leader holds the right to dictate to the followers to renounce their critical faculties and to embrace a pseudo-miraculous, a mystically self-centered, delusional vision of mandatory happiness.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Law & PoliticsTopic: HistoryRelease Year: 2014 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: The Devil in History
Title: The Devil in History
EAN: 9780520282209
ISBN: 9780520282209
Release Date: 03/14/2014
Release Year: 2014
Subtitle: Communism, Fascism, and Some Lessons of the Twentieth Century
ISBN-10: 0520282205
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: Devil in History : Communism, Fascism, and Some Lessons of the Twentieth Century
Number of Pages: 336 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Topic: Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Political Ideologies / Fascism & Totalitarianism, General, World, Europe / General
Publication Year: 2014
Item Height: 0.8 in
Genre: Political Science, History
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Vladimir Tismaneanu
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
