The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991.

National Review | July 31, 1995| | Copyright

WITHIN the former Soviet bloc, nobody of any repute has appeared to defend Communism or to lament its demise. It has been left to a veteran Communist in the West, Eric Hobsbawm, to do that. Often he refers to Communism as ``socialism,'' but that is word-play. A key sentence of his book reads: ``The failure of Soviet socialism does not reflect on the possibility of other kinds of socialism.'' The whole murderous enterprise would start again, if he had his way.

Hobsbawm has lived through all but a few years of what he calls the Short Twentieth Century, the period from 1914 ...

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