The Dragons of Expectation
The Dragons of Expectation: Reality and Delusion in the Course of History Robert Conquest,
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 0393327590
DDC: 909
Edition: Paperback; 2006-02-06
Summary:
A landmark defense of civilization that illuminates the political
degradations and intellectual fetishisms of our world.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.
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