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Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm
As a Marxist historiographer he has focused on analysis of the ” dual revolution ” the political French Revolution and the British Industrial Revolution. David Evanier, in an article published in the American neoconservative magazine The Weekly Standardcalled Hobsbawm “Stalin’s cheerleader”, writing: He admits to having been dismayed when, two years later, Khrushchev denounced Stalin’s crimes at the Twentieth Congress of the Soviet Communist Party.
The Age of Revolution: But that knowledge is wasted when used to write untrustworthy history.
These uncompromisingly revisionist articles were collected under the general heading The Forward March of Labour Halted. Following a false prophet”. Archived from the original on 2 March Learning to speak English properly, Eric became a pupil at Marylebone grammar school and in he won a scholarship to King’s College, Cambridge.
Yet by the time of his death at the age of 95, he had achieved a unique position in the country’s intellectual life. The Soviet invasion of Hungary and the crushing of the Prague Spring are skipped over. If the Party ordered you to abandon your lover or spouse, you did so.
These works are reminders that Hobsbawm was both a bridge between European and British historiography and a forerunner of the notable rise of the study of social history in post Britain. He developed contacts with Italian left-wing academics and intellectuals in the early s, which led to him encountering the work of Antonio Gramsciwhose writings were a key influence on Hobsbawm’s work on the history of subaltern groupsemphasising their agency as well as structural factors.
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He’s not that kind of person. He does feel bad about the appalling waste of lives in Soviet communism.
Eric Hobsbawm · LRB
His conversations with the Italian communist — and now state president — Giorgio Napolitano date from these years, and were published as The Italian Road to Socialism. This page was last edited on 11 Decemberat They divorced in Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm. Presented as archival content. The Short Twentieth Century, — The Invention of Tradition. I have abandoned, nay, rejected it, but it has not been obliterated. The four volumes embodied all of Hobsbawm’s best qualities — the sweep combined with the telling anecdote and statistical grasp, the attention to the nuance and significance of events and words, and above all, perhaps, the unrivalled powers of synthesis nowhere better displayed than in a classic summary of midth century capitalism on the very first page of the second volume.
Eric was 14, and his Uncle Sidney took charge once more, taking Eric and his sister Nancy to live in Berlin.
Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm | British historian |
Discover some of the most interesting and trending topics of Retrieved 3 October But he refuses to acknowledge that he regrets anything. It is a damning judgement”. Europe Under the Dictators exhibition catalogue [58]. There, inErok Hobsbawm met Nelly Gruen, a young Viennese from a middle-class family who had been given a trip to Egypt as a prize for completing her school studies.
One of the worst things about the politics of the past 30 years is that the rich have forgotten to be afraid of the poor — of most of the people in the world.
Eric Hobsbawm obituary
It is impossible to understand the reluctance of men and women on the left to criticise, or even often to admit to themselves, what was happening in the USSR in those years, or the isolation of the USSR’s critics on the left, without this sense that in the fight against fascism, communism and liberalism were, in a profound sense, fighting for the same cause. Marx and Marxism — Legacies of Twentieth-Century Communism.
A clerical error at birth altered his surname from Hobsbaum to Hobsbawm.
Two years later his mother died of TB. Retrieved 21 November By this time, though, Hobsbawm had already published the first of the works on which both his popular and academic reputations still rest.