[lit-ideas] Re: Eric Hobsbawm dies, aged 95
- From: Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 16:27:20 +0100 (BST)
"Most startlingly, Hobsbawm gave Stalin the credit for the post war âmiraclesâ
experienced in the West. Soviet communism, he argued, had provided its
antagonist âwith the incentive â fear â to reform itselfâ and âby establishing
the popularity of economic planning, furnished it with some of the procedures
for its reform.â In a television interview, Hobsbawm was asked whether, for
such an accomplishment to take place, âthe loss of fifteen, twenty million
people might have been justified?â
âYesâ, replied Hobsbawm."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9579079/Eric-Hobsbawm.html
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Eric Hobsbawm dies, aged 95
"Eric Hobsbawm, one of the most readable and wide-ranging historians of his
generation, has died, his family have announced."
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=421347&c=1
Chris Bruce,
Kiel, Germany
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