Eric Hobsbawm

...emphasized in his own 1994 book, ''The Age of Extremes '': J. D. Bernal: A Life in Science and Politics by Brenda Swann, Francis Aprahamian, E. J. Hobsbawm Culture, ideology, and politics : essays for Eric Hobsbawm (History Workshop Series)

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The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991 is a book by Eric Hobsbawm, published in 1994. In it, Hobsbawm comments on what he sees as the disastrous failures of state socialism, capitalism, and nationalism; he offers an...

In this article: Socialism, Fascism, The Age of Extremes, Benito Mussolini, United States, State capitalism, Capitalism, World War I, and Brian Jones

...is not what happened, but what people felt about it when it was happening". In the 1960s Marxist historians such as EP Thompson and Eric Hobsbawm sought to resurrect the voices of the neglected working class and write a new form of social...

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...a PR agency with an old Camden schoolfriend, Julia Hobsbawm, daughter of the famous British Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm. Hobsbawm Macaulay pioneered what it called "integrity PR" or "ethical PR", representing a mix of political and...

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...Marxism Today was noted for its analysis of the decline of traditional working-class politics. Judged as a prediction, Eric Hobsbawm's series of articles identifying Labour's Lost Millions were better read as a warning, which New Labour...

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...the director Derek Jarman, and even VG Kiernan, who of all his historian contemporaries (EP Thompson, Christopher Hill and Eric Hobsbawm) had the widest interests and is now most often forgotten. The best of the essays either appeared...

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...of bile on one of Britain's most venerated historians? Few people send the Daily Mail into greater paroxysms of rage than Eric Hobsbawm. And all this week it has been frothing at the mouth following the Guardian's revelation that the...

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...- so long as they do not try to outlaw fellow historians who have Right-wing ones. The objection to Eric Hobsbawm is not that he is Left-wing. It is that he plumped for Stalin when there were already ample reports in the West of the...

In this article: Joseph Stalin, Ted Kennedy, Seumas Milne, Soviet Union, History, Britain, Keith Thomas, Fascism, and Capitalism

...capitalism and says Stalin was right to murder millions is demanding to see his MI5 files. Imagine how the KGB would have treated him! Eric Hobsbawm: Supported brutal repression carried out by the Soviets The voice, though old and crackly,...

In this article: Communism, Capitalism, Anthony Blunt, History, Islam, and Fascism

...see personal data • Labour peer asks ministers to lift ban on access The former Labour leader Neil Kinnock once described Eric Hobsbawm as "my favourite Marxist". But now the Labour government is being challenged to explain to...

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