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Marxist Unrepentant |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Dennis O'Keeffe |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1996 |
| Size: 1,918 Words, 12,097 Characters |
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AGE OF EXTREMES
The Short Twentieth Century, 1914--1991
Eric Hobsbawm
New York: Pantheon, 1995
627 pp., $30.00
Eric Hobsbawm's book on the twentieth century is a strange mixture of brilliance and nagging, obstinate Marxist perversity. The range is stunning, embracing, in a global sweep, the economics, politics, social arrangements and mores, arts, and sciences of our century. Confronted with the elegance and aplomb with which this complex subject matter is managed, one sees why a conservative historian like Oxford's Norman Stone, while utterly rejecting Hobsbawm's Marxism, can praise his abilities in exposition (and does so, extravagantly, on the dust jacket of the British edition).
Hobsbawm has not specialized in this century; yet his erudition is vast, and ...
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...rx himself.
The human spirit longs for meaning and significance in the world. Some faiths can give it this. Faiths are born in hope and confidence. Their deaths, by contrast, are mostly lingering and ignominious. No intellectual death in history has rivaled that of communism in protracted, haunted ugliness. Maybe Hobsbawm thinks he has nothing to atone for. This book shows how wrong he is.
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