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1 online resource (479 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part 1: American Society and the Discontents of Postmodernity; 1. Godfather II: The New American Tragedy; 2. American Sociology and the Collapse of Communism; 3. ""Imagined Tyranny""? Political Correctness Reconsidered; 4. The Attack on Science and Reason; 5. Good Intentions and Unintended Consequences: A Critique of ""Affirmative Action; 6. Reassessing the Adversary Culture; 7. The Durable Significance of the Political Pilgrimages; 8. Nonconformist Intellectuals Today |
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9. The Pursuit of Identity, Community and Social Justice: The Cult of Victimhood Revisited10. Saving Sociology?; 11. Marxism and Western Intellectuals in the Postcommunist Era; 12. Intellectuals and the War in Kosovo; 13. Acknowledgements: Appearance and Reality in a Ritual of Academic Life; Part 2: Soviet Communism: Its Fall and Aftermath; 14. The Mystery of the Transformation of Communist Systems; 15. Why Communism Collapsed in Eastern Europe; 16. Moral Responses to the Great Mass Murders of Our Century; 17. Digesting the Collapse of Communism: Responses of Western Intellectuals |
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18. Revisiting the ""The Banality of Evil"": Political Violence in Communist Systems19. Growing Up in Communist Hungary; 20. Thoughts on Travel in Russia; 21. Western Views on Communism: Judgments and Misjudgments; 22. Westernization and Anti-Americanism in Post-Communist Societies; 23. The Cult of Personality in Communist States; 24. The Crimes of Communism; 25. Andre Gide and the Soviet Union: Infatuation and Disaffection; Name Index; Subject Index |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351325394 |
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1351325396 |
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