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Stalin's Professor - The awful, influential career of E. J. Hobsbawm.(communist and historian)
The present-day tyrant always sends out two kinds of emissaries: armed men and forgers of ideas; robust individuals and thin men with glasses and sunken chests; rowdies who beat the nation and other rowdies who give thanks for the beating in the name of the nation. The policeman is followed-and sometimes also preceded-by the liar.
Ferdinand Peroutka wrote these words, and they are to be found in Arch Puddington's informative book Broadcasting Freedom, about Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. An outstanding Czech democrat, Peroutka was in a position to speak for the victims of totalitarianism. First the Nazis had imprisoned him, then the Communists had chased him ...
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...of his lip seems to be saying, "I am Eric Hobsbawm and you're not." The Eric Hobsbawm of these 400-plus pages is not that man on...London, and on and on. Historian that he is, Hobsbawm also reflects on his memories and the way that...
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...neatly to two conventional centuries. Hobsbawm is an obvious candidate to be the premier...British historian of a Marxist persuasion. Hobsbawm's own life began in 1917, soon after...is also in a sense a biography of Eric Hobsbawm. Both the strengths and the weaknesse...
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...forcefully than before. An exception is Eric Hobsbawm, who at 85 is still at work and who...twentieth century." (2) The appearance of Hobsbawm's autobiography is a major intellectual...merely wrong but evil and why, as in Hobsbawm's case, did it take so long to recognize...
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