Paul Hollander

From Benito Mussolini to Hugo Chavez

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the roots of reverence and admiration expressed by many distinguished Western intellectuals for ruthless dictators.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 491g
• ISBN-13: 9781107415072
• ISBN-10: 1107415071
• Artikelnr.: 47399786

Autorenporträt

Paul Hollander is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and an associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, Massachusetts. Born in Budapest, Hollander earned his BA from the London School of Economics and Political Science and his PhD from Princeton University, New Jersey. He received the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1974, and was a Visiting Scholar several times at the Hoover Institution. He has published fifteen books, most of them dealing with communist systems, totalitarianism, political violence, extremism, propaganda, and the political attitude of Western intellectuals.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: intellectuals and politics
2. Mussolini, fascism and intellectuals
3. Hitler, Nazism and intellectuals
4. Stalin, Rakosi, Soviet communism and intellectuals
5. Castro, Che Guevara, and their Western admirers
6. Western intellectuals, Mao's China and Cambodia under Pol Pot
7. Other dictators and their admirers in more recent times
8. Conclusions: the personal and the political.