1st Edition

Myth of the Nation and Vision of Revolution Ideological Polarization in the Twentieth Century

By Jacob L. Talmon Copyright 1991
    658 Pages
    by Routledge

    In what may well rank as the finest political and intellectual history of the twentieth century, the late J. L. Talmon explores the origins of the schism within European society between the totalitarians of Right and Left as well as the split between an acceptance of the historical national community as the natural political and social framework and the vision of a socialist society achieved by a universal revolutionary breakthrough. This, the third and final volume of Talmon's history of the modern world, brings to bear the resources of his incisive scholarship to examine the workings of the ironies of totalitarianism as well as the resources of democracy.

    Biography

    Jacob L. Talmon