1st Edition

Ideological Storms Intellectuals, Dictators, and the Totalitarian Temptation

Edited By Vladimir Tismaneanu, Bogdan C. Iacob Copyright 2019
548 Pages
by Central European University Press

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 dictatorships during the twentieth century. The contributions focus on turning points or moments of... Read more
Introduction, Part One INTELLECTUALS AND COMMUNISM IN EUROPE, Part Two REVOLUTION AND UTOPIA, Part Three VISIONS OF THE NATION IN EASTERN EUROPE, Part Four LESSONS AT THE TURN OF A CENTURY, Epilogue, Contributors, Index

Biography

Vladimir Tismaneanu isProfessor of politics and Director of the Center for the Study of Post-communist Societies at University of Maryland (College Park).

Bogdan C. Iacob is Post Doctoral Research Associate at the University of Exeter.