- 20th century, Attitudes, Foreign public opinion, History
Why did so many distinguished Western Intellectuals―from G.B. Shaw to J.P. Sartre, and. closer to home, from Edmund Wilson to Susan Sontag - admire various communist systems, often in their most repressive historical phases?
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Grave, cool, earnest and classical in form.
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- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Paul Hollander
- First published
- 1981
- Pages
- 526
- Publisher
- HarperCollins, Distributed by National Book Network, University Press of America
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780819173843
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