| ID | 133639 |
| Title Proper | Bourgeois Eric Hobsbawm |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Bell, David A |
| Publication | 2014. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | IN A FAMOUS exchange in 1994, Michael Ignatieff asked Eric Hobsbawm whether the vast human costs inflicted by Stalin on the Soviet Union could possibly be justified. Hobsbawm replied, "Probably not. . . . because it turns out that the Soviet Union was not the beginning of the world revolution. Had it been, I'm not sure." Do you mean, Ignatieff pressed him, that "had the radiant tomorrow actually been created, the loss of fifteen, twenty million people might have been justified?" Hobsbawm answered, "Yes." |
| `In' analytical Note | National Interest Vol. No.133; Sep-Oct.2014: p.76-82 |
| Journal Source | National Interest Vol. No.133; Sep-Oct.2014: p.76-82 |
| Key Words | Bourgeois Eric Hobsbawm ; British Historian ; International Communist Historian ; Non-Marxist Views ; Marxist View ; World Revolution ; Soviet Union ; Stalin Regime ; Communist Regime ; Red Carpet |