The dragons of expectation
Subtitle: reality and delusion in the course of history
By: Robert Conquest
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780393059335
Subjects: Ideology; Totalitarismus; Ideologie; Social history; Geschichtsphilosophie; Modern Civilization; History
Other titles: Reality and delusion in the course of history
Description: A philosophical defense of modern civilization traces the consequences of seductive ideas throughout history, analyzing how false nostrums have led to corruption within every type of government and in the academic world.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-239) and index.
Table of contents: title: Heads above water and vice versa --; title: Lemming lore --; title: Harpooning some word-whales --; title: Choose your enlightenment --; title: After utopia --; title: Internationalism, supranationalism --; title: Slouching towards Byzantium --; title: 1917 : "revolution" and reality --; title: Revolutionary high finance : some notes on a neglected theme --; title: Into the planned economy --; title: Inside the new society --; title: With and against Hitler --; title: Cold war : heated imaginations --; title: A gaggle of misleaders --; title: A collapse of unreality --; title: The whys of art --; title: Bureaucracies and barbarism --; title: Awake to affirmation --; title: "No one foresaw the collapse of the Soviet system" --; title: An Anglosphere in the neosphere (a political exercise).