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Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm war ein marxistisch orientierter britischer Universalhistoriker mit sozial- und wirtschaftshistorischen Schwerpunkten. Weltweit bekannt wurde er mit seinem dreibändigen Werk zur Geschichte des „langen 19. Jahrhunderts“ und dem Ergänzungsband zum „kurzen 20. Jahrhundert“ sowie mit Überlegungen zu erfundener Tradition und Studien über die Arbeiterbewegung. Kritiker werfen ihm vor, er habe sich zu spät und zu wenig vom Stalinismus distanziert. Wikipedia  

✵ 9. Juni 1917 – 1. Oktober 2012  •  Andere Namen Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm
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“The world that went to pieces at the end of the 1980's was the world shaped by the impact of the Russian Revolution of 1917.”

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Eric Hobsbawm buch The Age of Extremes

The Age of Extremes (1992)

“no groups of populations welcomed the opening of the career of talent to whatever kind more passionately than those minorities who had hitherto been disbarred not merely because they were not well-born, but because they suffered official and collective discrimination.”

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Quelle: The Age of Revolution (1962), Chapter 10, A Career Open to Talent

“The destruction of the past, or rather of the social mechanisms that link one's contemporary experience to that of earlier generations, is one of the most characteristic and eerie phenomena of the late twentieth century.”

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Introduction, The Century: A Bird's Eye View
The Age of Extremes (1992)

“It was the tragedy of modernist artists, Left or Right, that the much more effective political commitment of their own mass movements and politicians - not to mention their adversaries - rejected them. With the partial exception of Futurist-influenced Italian fascism, the new authoritarian regimes of both Right and Left preferred old-fashioned and gigantic monumental buildings and vistas in architecture, inspirational representations in both painting and sculpture, elaborate performances of the classics on stage, and ideological acceptability in literature.”

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The Arts 1914-1945
The Age of Extremes (1992)

“In the simplest terms the question who or what caused the Second World War can be answered in two words: Adolf Hitler.”

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Quelle: The Age of Extremes (1992), p. 36 <Ref> https://libcom.org/files/Eric%20Hobsbawm%20-%20Age%20Of%20Extremes%20-%201914-1991.pdf</ref>

“However, mass expulsion and even genocide began to make their appearance on the southern margins of Europe during and after World War I, as the Turks set about the mass extirpation of the Armenians in 1915 and, after the Greco Turkish war of 1911, expelled between 1.3 and 1.5 millions of Greeks from Asia Minor, where they had lived since the days of Homer.1 Subsequently Adolph Hitler, who was in this respect a logical Wilsonian nationalist, arranged to transfer Germans not living on the territory of the fatherland, such as those of Italian South Tyrol, to Germany itself, as he also arranged for the permanent elimination of the Jews.”

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Quelle: Nations and nationalism since 1780 programme, myth, reality (1992), p. 133.

“In terms of political geography, The French Revolution ended the European Middle Ages.”

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Quelle: The Age of Revolution (1962), Chapter 4, War

“The cultural revolution of the later twentieth century can thus best be understood as the triumph of the individual over society, or rather, the breaking of the threads which in the past had woven human beings into social textures. For such textures had consisted not only of the actual relations between human beings and their forms of organization but also of the general models of such relations and the texted patterns of people's behaviour towards each other; their roles were prescribed, though not always written. Hence the often traumatic insecurity when older conventions of behaviour were either overturned or lost their rationale, or the incomprehension between those who felt this loss and those too young to have known anything but anomic society.”

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Quelle: The Age of Extremes (1992), Chapter Eleven, Cultural Revolution, p. 335

“The tragedy of the October revolution was precisely that it could only produce its kind of ruthless, brutal, command socialism.”

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Quelle: The Age of Extremes (1992), Chapter Sixteen, End of Socialism

“Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siecle.”

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Divided Europeans: Understanding Ethnicities in Conflict http://books.google.co.in/books?id=4aECmbMMzIYC&pg=PA41 (1999), p. 41.

“The really frightening risk of war was neglect, filth, poor organization, defective medical services, and hygenic ignorance, which conditions (as in the troops) practically everybody.”

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Quelle: The Age of Revolution (1962), Chapter 4, War

“[N]o serious historian of nations and nationalism can be a committed political nationalist… Nationalism requires too much belief in what is patently not so.”

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Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality http://books.google.com/books?id=OHz70fY8t2UC&amp;lpg=PA12&amp;pg=PA12#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false (Cambridge University Press, 2nd ed. 2012), p. 12. <br class="br">Nations and nationalism since 1780 programme, myth, reality (1992)

“First, utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.”

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Primitive Rebels: Studies in Archaic Forms of Social Movement in the 19th and 20th Centuries http://books.google.com/books?id=sCK8AAAAIAAJ&amp;lpg=PP1&amp;pg=PA60#v=onepage&amp;q=&amp;f=false (1971), p. 60.

“'Europe' had been on the defensive for a millennium. Now, for half a millennium, it conquered the world. Both observations make it impossible to sever European history from world history.”

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Chap. 17 : The Curious History of Europe
On History (1997)

“Having established the limits beyond which partisanship ceases to be scientifically legitimate, let me argue the case in favour of legitimate partisanship, both from the point of view of the scientific or scholarly discipline and from that of the cause to which the scholar feels committed.”

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Chap. 9 : Partisanship
On History (1997)

“History as inspiration and ideology has a built-in tendency to become self-justifying myth. Nothing is a more dangerous blindfold than this, as the history of modern nations and nationalisms demonstrates.”

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Chap. 3 : What Can History Tell Us about Contemporary Society?
On History (1997)

“The past is therefore a permanent dimension of the human consciousness, an inevitable component of the institutions, values and other patterns of human society. The problem for historians is to analyse the nature of this 'sense of the past' in society and to trace its changes and transformations.”

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Chap. 2 : The Sense of the Past
On History (1997)

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