LEADER 04681nam 2200457 450 001 9910793825503321 005 20230817183410.0 010 $a963-386-304-X 035 $a(CKB)4100000009844455 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5982502 035 $a(DE-B1597)633329 035 $a(DE-B1597)9789633863046 035 $a(OCoLC)1338020296 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000009844455 100 $a20191211d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aIdeological storms $eintellectuals, dictators, and the totalitarian temptation /$fedited by Vladimir Tismaneanu, Bogdan C. Iacob 210 1$aBudapest, Hungary ;$aNew York, New York :$cCentral European University Press,$d[2019] 210 4$d©2019 215 $a1 online resource (vii, 539 pages) $cillustrations 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a963-386-303-1 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tTable of Contents -- $tIntroduction -- $tPart One INTELLECTUALS AND COMMUNISM IN EUROPE -- $tIllusions of Influence and the Mystique of Power: The Fellow-Travelers and Stalin as Philosopher King -- $tStalin and the Muse of History: The Dictator and His Critics on the Editing of the 1938 Short Course -- $tResisting the Totalitarian Temptation: The Case of Ignazio Silone -- $tGreek Intellectuals and the Fascination with Communism: The Graft that Did Not Blossom (1924?1949) -- $tShadows of Paradise: Romanian Intellectuals and the Soviet Union -- $tNational Rebirth, Intellectuals, and the Rise of the Communist Regime in Romania (1944?1948) -- $tPart Two REVOLUTION AND UTOPIA -- $tDictators and Intellectuals: Attractions and Affinities -- $tA ?Beautiful? Dream: Mussolini?s Delirium of Omnipotence and the Aesthetics of the Sublime -- $tThe Metapolitics of Despair: Romania?s Mystical Generation and the Passions of Emil Cioran -- $tArthur Koestler and the Temptations of Utopianism -- $tRadical Engagements: Surrealism, Art, and Politics in Interwar Romania -- $tPart Three VISIONS OF THE NATION IN EASTERN EUROPE -- $tIon Antonescu: The Temptation of Fascism -- $tEthnopolitical Temptations Reach Southeastern Europe: The Wartime Policy Papers of Vasa ?ubrilovi? and Sabin Manuil? -- $tCzech Communist Intellectuals and the ?National Road to Socialism?: Zden?k Nejedlý and Karel Kosík, 1945?1968 -- $tParty Intellectuals and Romanian National Stalinism -- $tPart Four LESSONS AT THE TURN OF A CENTURY -- $tAt War with Israel: Anti-Zionism in East Germany from the 1960s to the 1980s -- $tThe Pathology of Arab Dictatorship: Memories of Saddam Hussein -- $tCalming the Ideological Storms? Reflections on Cold War Liberalism -- $tFear and Freedom in Contemporary China -- $tEpilogue -- $tPolitical Innocence and Its Modes -- $tContributors -- $tIndex 330 $aThis 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 breakage as well as on the continuities. Though its focus is on an East?West comparison in Europe, there are texts also dealing with Latin America, China, and the Middle East giving the book a global outlook. The first part of the book deals with intellectuals' involvement with communist regimes or parties; the second looks at the persistence of utopianism in the trajectory of intellectuals who had been associated earlier in their lives with either communism or fascism; the third tackles intellectuals' role in national imaginations from either the left or the right; and, the fourth ties late twentieth century phenomena to current phenomena such as the persistence of anti-Semitism in the West, the slow erosion of the values upon which the EU is built, the quagmire in Iraq, and China's rise in the post-Cold War era. The collection provides a comprehensive big-picture of intellectual genealogies and dictatorial developments. 606 $aCommunism and intellectuals 610 $aCold War, Communism, Cultural studies, Dictatorship, East and West, Fascism, Intellectuals, Values. 615 0$aCommunism and intellectuals. 676 $a305.552 702 $aTismaneanu$b Vladimir 702 $aIacob$b Bogdan 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910793825503321 996 $aIdeological storms$93755538 997 $aUNINA