Best of times, worst of times memoirs of a political education

A memoir by a prominent and highly respected historian and political commentator.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Laqueur, Walter, 1921- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Waltham, Mass. : Hanover : Brandeis University Press ; University Press of New England 2009.
Colección:The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A surfeit of politics, or, Why I would have preferred the nineteenth century
  • Growing up under the Nazis, or, Why one had to be there to understand it
  • Marxism, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War, or, The dream that failed
  • The downfall and partial resurgence of the Soviet empire, or, The strange fortunes of the Congress for Cultural Freedom, "Finlandization," and Putinism
  • A Middle East education, or, Reflections on Arabia, Israel, Zionism, and antisemitism
  • Think tanks and political intelligence, or, Why it is so difficult to predict
  • Guerrilla warfare and terrorism, or, What systematic study and theory can mean
  • Europe, 1945-2008, or, A short study in hope and frustration
  • Postface.