TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tismaneanu,Vladimir
TI  - The devil in history: communism, fascism, and some lessons of the twentieth century 
SN  - 1283571498
AV  - JC474 .T497 2012
U1  - 335.43 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Communist state
KW  - History
KW  - Communism
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Fascism
KW  - Totalitarianism
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Political Ideologies
KW  - Communism & Socialism
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - World
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Prologue : totalitarian dictators and ideological hubris -- Utopian radicalism and dehumanization -- Diabolical pedagogy and the (il)logic of Stalinism -- Lenin's century : Bolshevism, Marxism, and the Russian tradition -- Dialectics of disenchantment : Marxism and ideological decay in Leninist regimes -- Ideology, utopia, and truth: lessons from Eastern Europe -- Malaise and resentment : threats to democracy in post-communist societies
N2  - The 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 politi
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