"The Devil in History" is a provocative analysis of the
relationship between communism and fascism. Reflecting the
authorOCOs personal experiences within communist totalitarianism,
this is a book about political passions, radicalism, utopian
ideals, and their catastrophic consequences in the twentieth
centuryOCOs 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 political movements, the
visions of salvation and revolution they pursued, the value and
types of charisma of leaders within these political movements, the
place of violence within these systems, and their legacies in
contemporary politics.The author discusses thinkers who have shaped
contemporary understanding of totalitarian movementsOCopeople such
as Hannah Arendt, Raymond Aron, Isaiah Berlin, Albert Camus, Fran
ois Furet, Tony Judt, Ian Kershaw, Leszek Kolakowski, Richard
Pipes, and Robert C. Tucker. As much a theoretical analysis of the
practical philosophies of Marxism-Leninism and Fascism as it is a
political biography of particular figures, this book deals with the
incarnation of diabolically nihilistic principles of human
subjugation and conditioning in the name of presumably pure and
purifying goals. Ultimately, the author claims that no ideological
commitment, no matter how absorbing, should ever prevail over the
sanctity of human life. He comes to the conclusion that no party,
movement, or leader holds the right to dictate to the followers to
renounce their critical faculties and to embrace a
pseudo-miraculous, a mystically self-centered, delusional vision of
mandatory happiness.
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