Myth of the Nation and Vision of Revolution

In what may well rank as the finest political and intellectual history of the twentieth century, the late J

Autorentext

Jacob L. Talmon was educated in Poland, Israel and France. He is the author of The origins of Totalitarian Democracy and Political Messianism. At the time of his death in 1980 he was professor of Modern History at Hebrew university, and was spending his sabbatical year at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina. Irving Louis Horowitz (Introduction) is Hannah Arendt Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Sociology at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

Inhalt

PREFACE, INTRODUCTION, PART I MARX, ENGELS AND THE NATION PART II THE EMANCIPATION OF THE PROLETARIAT AND THE NATIONAL DESTINY-WILHELMINE GERMANY, PART III THE WITCHES' KITCHEN AND ITS BREW: THE NATIONALITIES PROBLEM-AUSTRIA, PART IV THE JEWISH DIMENSION, PART V RUSSIA-HOLY, PROFANED AND PREDESTINED, PART VI LENIN-INTERNATIONAL REVOLUTIONARY AND ARCHITECT OF NEW RUSSIA, PART VII THE GENERAL WILL OF THE GLOBAL PROLETARIAT -UNIVERSAL TOTALITARIAN DEMOCRACY, PART VIII FROM GEORGES SOREL TO BENITO MUSSOLINI, PART IX THE GERMAN REVOLUTION OF 1918 AND HITLER IN THE WINGS, CONCLUSIONS.