Reflections on a Ravaged Century - Hardcover

Conquest, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393048187 ISBN 13: 9780393048186

Publisher: WW Norton & Co, 1999

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 this title

Book Description:

During the 20th century many millions of people have been slaughtered, and the world has been on the brink of nuclear war. Have lessons been learned? If so, to what extent? This book explores the role that ideology has played in this century's atrocities.

Synopsis:

A look at the twentieth century examines the factors and events that have sent millions to their deaths, discussing the philosophies that have caused so much conflict, as well as what the future may hold for the human race.

About this edition

• Publisher: WW Norton & Co
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0393048187
• ISBN 13: 9780393048186
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336