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Ideological storms : intellectuals, dictators, and the totalitarian temptation / edited by Vladimir Tismaneanu and Bogdan C. Iacob

Tismăneanu, Vladimir, 1951- [Herausgeberin/-geber] ; Iacob, Bogdan C., 1979- [Herausgeberin/-geber]

Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2019

vii, 539 Seiten : Illustrationen ; 24 cm

Englisch

Enthält Literaturangaben und ein Personenregister

978-963-386-303-9 (hbk.)

2018965868

OCoLC: 1101924705     

MS 4725      Ähnliche Literatur

HX528

321.9

Basisklassifikation: 15.71 (Osteuropa) <Geschichte> ; 89.36 (Autoritäre Systeme)

*Osteuropa ; Totalitarismus ; Geistesleben ; Aufsatzsammlung      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Communism and intellectuals ; Dictatorship -- Social aspects ; Totalitarianism -- Social aspects ; Europe, Eastern -- Intellectual life -- 20th century

Communism and intellectuals ; Intellectual life ; Totalitarianism ; Social aspects ; Europe, Eastern

This volume gathers authors who wrote important works in the fields of the history of ideology, the comparative study of dictatorship, and intellectual history. The book is a state of the art reassessment and analysis of the ideological commitments of intellectuals and their relationships with dictatorships during the twentieth century. The contributions focus on turning points or moments of rupture as well as on the continuities. Though its focus is on an East-West comparison in Europe, there are texts also dealing with Latin America, China, and the Middle East, giving the book a global outlook. The first part of the book deals with intellectuals' involvement with communist regimes or parties; the second looks at the persistence of utopianism in the trajectory of intellectuals who had been associated earlier in their lives with either communism or fascism; the third considers the role of intellectuals in national imaginations from the left or the right; and the fourth links late twentieth century phenomena to current phenomena, such as the persistence of anti-Semitism in the West, the slow erosion of the values upon which the EU is built, the quagmire in Iraq, and China's rise in the post-Cold War era. The collection provides a comprehensive overview of intellectual genealogies and dictatorial developments.