LEADER 04379nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910462234403321 005 20211209013318.0 010 $a1-283-57149-8 010 $a9786613883940 010 $a0-520-95417-3 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520954175 035 $a(CKB)2670000000234056 035 $a(EBL)996192 035 $a(OCoLC)809910937 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000704778 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11405321 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000704778 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10719285 035 $a(PQKB)11666854 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC996192 035 $a(DE-B1597)519841 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520954175 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL996192 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10590399 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL388394 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000234056 100 $a20120416d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe devil in history$b[electronic resource] $ecommunism, fascism, and some lessons of the twentieth century /$fVladimir Tismaneanu 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (335 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-520-28220-5 311 0 $a0-520-23972-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tForeword --$tPrologue: Totalitarian Dictators and Ideological Hubris --$t1. Utopian Radicalism and Dehumanization --$t2. Diabolical Pedagogy and the (Il)logic of Stalinism --$t3. Lenin's Century: Bolshevism, Marxism, and the Russian Tradition --$t4. Dialectics of Disenchantment: Marxism and Ideological Decay in Leninist Regimes --$t5. Ideology, Utopia, and Truth: Lessons from Eastern Europe --$t6. Malaise and Resentment: Threats to Democracy in Post- Communist Societies --$tConclusions --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aThe Devil in History is a provocative analysis of the relationship between communism and fascism. Reflecting the author's personal experiences within communist totalitarianism, this is a book about political passions, radicalism, utopian ideals, and their catastrophic consequences in the twentieth century's experiments in social engineering. Vladimir Tismaneanu brilliantly compares communism and fascism as competing, sometimes overlapping, and occasionally strikingly similar systems of political totalitarianism. He examines the inherent ideological appeal of these radical, revolutionary political movements, the visions of salvation and revolution they pursued, the value and types of charisma of leaders within these political movements, the place of violence within these systems, and their legacies in contemporary politics. The author discusses thinkers who have shaped contemporary understanding of totalitarian movements-people such as Hannah Arendt, Raymond Aron, Isaiah Berlin, Albert Camus, François Furet, Tony Judt, Ian Kershaw, Leszek Kolakowski, Richard Pipes, and Robert C. Tucker. As much a theoretical analysis of the practical philosophies of Marxism-Leninism and Fascism as it is a political biography of particular figures, this book deals with the incarnation of diabolically nihilistic principles of human subjugation and conditioning in the name of presumably pure and purifying goals. Ultimately, the author claims that no ideological commitment, no matter how absorbing, should ever prevail over the sanctity of human life. He comes to the conclusion that no party, movement, or leader holds the right to dictate to the followers to renounce their critical faculties and to embrace a pseudo-miraculous, a mystically self-centered, delusional vision of mandatory happiness. 606 $aCommunist state$xHistory 606 $aCommunism$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aFascism$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aTotalitarianism$xHistory$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCommunist state$xHistory. 615 0$aCommunism$xHistory 615 0$aFascism$xHistory 615 0$aTotalitarianism$xHistory 676 $a335.43 700 $aTismaneanu$b Vladimir$0676005 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462234403321 996 $aThe devil in history$92485462 997 $aUNINA