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Reflections of a Veteran Pessimist : Contemplating Modern Europe, Russia, and Jewish History /
"Having been exposed early in life to the dangers of extreme nationalism, journalist and historian Walter Laqueur chose to align his thinking with Victor Hugo's ideal of a "European Brotherhood" where the European nations would merge into a "superior unit" overcoming wa...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Taylor and Francis,
2017.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Europe in Decline (But Not Yet Finished); Europe-Th e Years Ahead; Better Fifty Years of Europe than a Cycle of Cathay (Locksley Hall); No Abyss, No Apocalypse; Islamic Fascism, Islamophobia, Anti-Semitism: A Postscript; Lessons from Oslo; The Refugees are Coming; Muslims in Europe; "An Anxious Continent" Spiegel Interview, July 26, 2013; Chapter 2: Jews in the Twentieth Century; Degenerate Art and the Jewish Grandmother; The Terrible Secret: A Second Look; Love in the Shadow of Death; The Scholems.
- On Russian Jewry TodayTimothy Snyder: Th e Newton of the Holocaust?; The Walter Benjamin Brigade; Hitler's Jews: Max von Oppenheim and the Myth of German Jewish Guilt; Oppenheim Biographer Lionel Gossman Responds to Walter Laqueur's Review; Chapter 3: Russia after the Soviet Union; Détente Plus? How Should the West Deal with Russia?; The Russian Enigma: Is the Bear Turning East?; Anti-Semitism and the New Russian Idea; Confabulation?; Russian Nationalism: Going Back to the Roots; The Russian Party under the Soviets; Central Asia-Toward 2050; Toward a New Russian Ideology; Author's Postscript.
- Chapter 4: ObservationsCyber Warfare; Nazi Germany: Secret Reports?; Who Needs Geography?; Luethy and Brecht: Martyrdom in Hollywood; Megaloglossa; Old Age; A Historical Education: A Wanderer between Several Worlds; Notes; Bibliography.