![](/Images/spacer.gif) |
![](/Images/menu_shadow.gif)
![](/Images/menu_shadow.gif)
|
![](/Images/spacer.gif) |
Item Details
Title:
|
THE PASSING OF AN ILLUSION
THE IDEA OF COMMUNISM IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY |
By: |
Francois Furet, Deborah Furet (Trans) |
Format: |
Paperback |
![](/Images/divider_itemdetail_1a.gif)
List price:
|
£33.00 |
Our price: |
£29.70 |
Discount: |
|
You save:
|
£3.30 |
|
|
|
|
ISBN 10: |
0226273415 |
ISBN 13: |
9780226273419 |
Availability: |
Usually dispatched within 3-5 days.
Delivery
rates
|
Stock: |
Currently 1item in stock |
Publisher: |
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS |
Pub. date: |
1 December, 2000 |
Pages: |
600 |
Translated from: |
French |
Description: |
A study of Communism and a history of the myth of Communism as perpetuated by its admirers. This book illuminates how the support for Communism and its embodiment, the Soviet Union, became virtually synonymous with "anti-Fascism" and how this strategic arrangement reverberated through the West. |
Synopsis: |
A study of Communism and a history of the myth of Communism as perpetuated by its admirers. Francois Furet illuminates how the support for Communism and its embodiment, the Soviet Union, became virtually synonymous with "anti-Fascism" and how this strategic arrangement reverberated through the West. During the first half of the 20th century, to be against the Soviet Union (and its Communism), argues Furet, was tantamount to betraying the fight against Fascism, despite the fact that both Fascism and Communism ultimately spring from the same nationalist impulse. Thus the struggle against Fascism resulted in the sanitizing or glorification of Communism. This whitewashing of the Soviet regime's excesses not only kept alive the myth and attractiveness of the Communist promise but had complex moral, intellectual, and political ramifications for the West. This book is a history of the ideological passions that have fueled and characterized the modern era. It serves as an effort to revise the understanding of the 20th century at the "fin de siecle". |
Illustrations: |
Ill. |
Publication: |
US |
Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press |
Returns: |
Returnable |
|
|
|
![](/images/spacer.gif) |
![](images/menu_shadow2.gif)
![](/Images/menu_shadow2left.gif)
|
![](/Images/menu_shadow2left.gif)
|
![](/Images/menu_shadow2left.gif)
|
![](/Images/menu_shadow2left.gif)
|
![](/Images/menu_shadow2left.gif)
|
Little Worried Caterpillar (PB)
Little Green knows she''s about to make a big change - transformingfrom a caterpillar into a beautiful butterfly. Everyone is VERYexcited! But Little Green is VERY worried. What if being a butterflyisn''t as brilliant as everyone says?Join Little Green as she finds her own path ... with just a littlehelp from her friends.
![](/Images/menu_shadow2left.gif)
|
![](/Images/menu_shadow2left.gif)
|
All the Things We Carry PB
What can you carry?A pebble? A teddy? A bright red balloon? A painting you''ve made?A hope or a dream?This gorgeous, reassuring picture book celebrates all the preciousthings we can carry, from toys and treasures to love and hope. With comforting rhymes and fabulous illustrations, this is a warmhug of a picture book.
![](/Images/menu_shadow2left.gif)
|
![](/Images/menu_shadow2left.gif)
|
|
![](/Images/spacer.gif) |