Reflections on a Ravaged Century

Conquest, Robert; Conquest; Weil

ISBN 10: 0393048187 / ISBN 13: 9780393048186

Published by W. W. Norton & Company, 1999

About this Item

Robert Conquest has been called by Paul Johnson "our greatest living modern historian". As a new century begins, Conquest offers an illuminating examination of our past failures and a guide to where we should go next. Graced with one of the most acute gifts for political prescience since Orwell. Conquest assigns responsibility for our century's cataclysms not to impersonal economic or social forces but to the distorted ideologies of revolutionary Marxism and National Socialism. The final, sobering chapters of Reflections on a Ravaged Century concern themselves with some coming storms, notably that of the European Union, which Conquest believes is an economic, cultural, and geographical misconception divisive of the West and doomed to failure.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reflections on a Ravaged Century
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393048187
• ISBN 13: 9780393048186
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Dimensions: 1W x 6.5H x 9.75D inches 1 inches width by 6.5 inches height by 9.75 inches depth
• Weight: 618 grams

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Synopsis

Robert Conquest has been called by Paul Johnson "our greatest living modern historian". As a new century begins, Conquest offers an illuminating examination of our past failures and a guide to where we should go next. Graced with one of the most acute gifts for political prescience since Orwell. Conquest assigns responsibility for our century's cataclysms not to impersonal economic or social forces but to the distorted ideologies of revolutionary Marxism and National Socialism. The final, sobering chapters of Reflections on a Ravaged Century concern themselves with some coming storms, notably that of the European Union, which Conquest believes is an economic, cultural, and geographical misconception divisive of the West and doomed to failure.

About the Author

Robert Conquest is currently Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. His other books include The Great Terror and The Harvest of Sorrow.