The Dragons of Expectation: Reality and Delusion in the Course of History
ISBN-13:
9780393327595
ISBN-10:
0393327590
Author:
Robert Conquest Ph.D.
Publication date:
2006
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Format:
Paperback
272 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780393327595
ISBN-10:
0393327590
Author:
Robert Conquest Ph.D.
Publication date:
2006
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Format:
Paperback
272 pages
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The Dragons of Expectation: Reality and Delusion in the Course of History (ISBN-13: 9780393327595 and ISBN-10: 0393327590), written by authors
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A landmark defense of civilization that illuminates the political degradations and intellectual fetishisms of our world.
The publication of The Dragons of Expectation in 2005 reaffirmed Robert Conquest's stature as a leading intellectual and one of the world's great humanists. In the tradition of Isaiah Berlin's The Crooked Timber of Humanity and George Orwell's Essays, this book brilliantly traces how seductive ideas have come to corrupt modern minds; to often disastrous effects. In what Publishers Weekly called "a frontal assault on the pieties of the left," Conquest masterfully examines how false nostrums have infected academia, politicians, and the public, showing how their reliance on "isms" and the destructive concepts of "People, Nation, and Masses" have resulted in a ruinous cycle of turbulence and war. Including fresh analyses of Russia's October Revolution, World War II, and the Cold War, The Dragons of Expectation is one of the most important contributions to modern thought in recent years. 3 illustrationsWe would LOVE it if you could help us and other readers by reviewing the book
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