Robert Conquest

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Senior Research Fellow and Scholar-Curator of the East European Collection Robert Conquest

The publication of The Dragons of Expectation in 2005 reaffirmed Robert Conquest's stature as a leading intellectual and one of the world's great humanists. In the tradition of Isaiah Berlin's The Crooked Timber of Humanity and George Orwell's Essays, this book brilliantly traces how seductive ideas have come to corrupt modern minds; to often disastrous effects. In what Publishers Weekly called "a frontal assault on the pieties of the left," Conquest masterfully examines how false nostrums have infected academia, politicians, and the public, showing how their reliance on "isms" and the destructive concepts of "People, Nation, and Masses" have resulted in a ruinous cycle of turbulence and war. Including fresh analyses of Russia's October Revolution, World War II, and the Cold War, The Dragons of Expectation is one of the most important contributions to modern thought in recent years.

Reality and Delusion in the Course of History

The Dragons of Expectation

George Robert Ackworth Conquest

A portrait of the Soviet leader describes Stalin's childhood, his roles as student, revolutionary, and communist theoretician, his clash with Lenin, the great Terror, and the Nazi-Soviet pact

Breaker of Nations

Stalin

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Half Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Editor's Foreword, Robert Conquest -- Contributors -- Nationalism and Bolshevism in the Ussr -- Alain Besanfon -- Russian Nationalism in Historical Perspective -- Hugh Seton- Watson -- Russian Nationalism and Soviet Politics: Official and Unofficial Perspectives -- Frederick C. Barghoorn -- Nationalism in the Soviet Empire: The Anti-Semitic Component -- Leonard Schapiro -- The Prospects of National Bolshevism -- Mikhail Agursky -- Russian National Feeling: An Informal Poll -- Vladislav Krasnov -- Soviet Minority Nationalism in Historical Perspective -- Alexandre Bennigsen -- The Ukraine and Russia -- Roman Szporluk -- The Baltic States -- Alexander Shtromas -- The Soviet Muslim Borderlands -- S. Enders Wimbush -- Minority Nationalism Today: An Overview -- Teresa Rakowska-Harmstone -- Language, Culture, Religion, and National Awareness -- John B. Dunlop -- Social and Economic Aspects of the Nationality Problem -- Gertrude E. Schroeder -- The Demography of Soviet Ethnic Groups in World Perspective -- Mikhail S. Bernstam -- Eastern Europe Within the Soviet Empire -- Milovan Djilas -- Nationalism in The Ussr and Its Implications For the World -- Donald W. Treadgold -- Index

Senior Research Fellow and Scholar-Curator of the East European Collection Robert Conquest

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