Ideological Storms : : Intellectuals, Dictators, and the Totalitarian Temptation /

Ideological Storms : : Intellectuals, Dictators, and the Totalitarian Temptation / / ed. by Vladimir Tismaneanu, Bogdan C. Iacob.

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This volume gathers authors who wrote important works in the fields of the history of ideologies, the comparative study of dictatorships, and intellectual history. The book is a state of the art reassessment and analysis of the ideological commitments of intellectuals and their relationships with di...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2019
MitwirkendeR:
Brandenberger, David,
David-Fox, Michael,
Dawisha, Adeed,
Deletant, Dennis,
Falasca-Zamponi, Simonetta,
Herf, Jeffrey,
Hollander, Paul,
Iacob, Bogdan C.,
Kopeček, Michal,
Lilla, Mark,
Marantzidis, Nikos,
Mitchievici, Angelo,
Müller, Jan-Werner,
Petrović, Vladimir,
Pugliese, Stanislao G.,
Scammell, Michael,
Stan, Marius,
Tismaneanu, Vladimir,
Vasile, Cristian,
Wasserstrom, Jeffrey,
HerausgeberIn:
Iacob, Bogdan C.,
Tismaneanu, Vladimir,
Place / Publishing House:Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (548 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part One INTELLECTUALS AND COMMUNISM IN EUROPE
  • Illusions of Influence and the Mystique of Power: The Fellow-Travelers and Stalin as Philosopher King
  • Stalin and the Muse of History: The Dictator and His Critics on the Editing of the 1938 Short Course
  • Resisting the Totalitarian Temptation: The Case of Ignazio Silone
  • Greek Intellectuals and the Fascination with Communism: The Graft that Did Not Blossom (1924–1949)
  • Shadows of Paradise: Romanian Intellectuals and the Soviet Union
  • National Rebirth, Intellectuals, and the Rise of the Communist Regime in Romania (1944–1948)
  • Part Two REVOLUTION AND UTOPIA
  • Dictators and Intellectuals: Attractions and Affinities
  • A “Beautiful” Dream: Mussolini’s Delirium of Omnipotence and the Aesthetics of the Sublime
  • The Metapolitics of Despair: Romania’s Mystical Generation and the Passions of Emil Cioran
  • Arthur Koestler and the Temptations of Utopianism
  • Radical Engagements: Surrealism, Art, and Politics in Interwar Romania
  • Part Three VISIONS OF THE NATION IN EASTERN EUROPE
  • Ion Antonescu: The Temptation of Fascism
  • Ethnopolitical Temptations Reach Southeastern Europe: The Wartime Policy Papers of Vasa Čubrilović and Sabin Manuilă
  • Czech Communist Intellectuals and the “National Road to Socialism”: Zdeněk Nejedlý and Karel Kosík, 1945–1968
  • Party Intellectuals and Romanian National Stalinism
  • Part Four LESSONS AT THE TURN OF A CENTURY
  • At War with Israel: Anti-Zionism in East Germany from the 1960s to the 1980s
  • The Pathology of Arab Dictatorship: Memories of Saddam Hussein
  • Calming the Ideological Storms? Reflections on Cold War Liberalism
  • Fear and Freedom in Contemporary China
  • Epilogue
  • Political Innocence and Its Modes
  • Contributors
  • Index

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