The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914–1991

The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914–1991

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The Pequod Review:

The Age of Extremes is one of Eric Hobsbawm’s weakest works; it is presented as an authoritative history, but is full of self-justifications for his prior association with Stalinism and similar movements.