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Eric Hobsbawm
Eric Hobsbawm’s most recent book is Globalisation, Democracy and Terrorism.
From the London Review dated 16 November 2006
- Journey to a Revolution: A Personal Memoir and History of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 by Michael Korda Buy this book
- Twelve Days: Revolution 1956 by Victor Sebestyen Buy this book
- A Good Comrade: Janos Kadar, Communism and Hungary by Roger Gough Buy this book
- Failed Illusions: Moscow, Washington, Budapest and the 1956 Hungarian Revolt by Charles Gati Buy this book
Contemporary history is useless unless it allows emotion to be recollected in tranquillity. Probably no episode in 20th-century history generated a more intense burst of feeling in the Western world than the Hungarian uprising of 1956. Although it lasted less than two weeks, it was both a classic instance of the narrative of justified popular insurrection against oppressive government, familiar since the fall of the Bastille, and of David’s in this case doomed victory against Goliath. [ read more . . . ]
Selected bibliography
- Globalisation, Democracy and Terrorism (2007) Buy this book
- Interesting Times: A 20th-Century Life (2002)
- On the Edge of the New Century (2000)
- On History (1997)
- Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914-91 (1994)
- Echoes of the Marseillaise: Two Centuries Look Back on the French Revolution (1990)
- Politics for a Rational Left: Political Writings, 1977-88 (1989)
- Workers: Worlds of Labor (1985)
- The Age of Capital, 1848-1875 (1975)
- Revolutionaries (1973)
- Bandits (1969)
- The Age of Revolution: Europe, 1789-1848 (1962)
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Cadres · 26 April 2007
- The Lost World of British Communism by Raphael Samuel Buy this book
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Could it have been different? · 16 November 2006
- Journey to a Revolution: A Personal Memoir and History of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 by Michael Korda Buy this book
- Twelve Days: Revolution 1956 by Victor Sebestyen Buy this book
- A Good Comrade: Janos Kadar, Communism and Hungary by Roger Gough Buy this book
- Failed Illusions: Moscow, Washington, Budapest and the 1956 Hungarian Revolt by Charles Gati Buy this book
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