ERIC HOBSBAWM
November 2012
The life and times of Stalin's last apologist and Britain's best-known Marxist historian
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November 2012
'In 1990, Hobsbawm embarrassedly asserted that nations are no longer "a feasible project" just when the nations of Eastern Europe, now free from Soviet Tyranny, reasserted themselves'
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November 2012
'I've come to the conclusion that revolution is something you can't make It's a happening rather than a planned operation and attempts to force it don't quite work out'
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December 2008
Our 'national teddy bear' of an historian has got it wrong more times than he would like mentioned
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Eric Hobsbawm
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