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- catalog abstract ""Both a political history and a moral critique of the twentieth century, this is a personal and impassioned book from one of Europe's most outstanding intellectuals. Identifying totalitarianism as the major innovation of the twentieth century, Tzvetan Todorov examines the struggle between this system and democracy and its effects on human life and consciousness. Todorov explores the history of the past century not only by analyzing its spectacular political conflicts but also by offering moving profiles of several individuals who, at great personal cost, resisted the strictures of the Communist and Nazi regimes."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Mémoire du mal, tentation du bien. English".
- catalog contributor b13017450.
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""Both a political history and a moral critique of the twentieth century, this is a personal and impassioned book from one of Europe's most outstanding intellectuals. Identifying totalitarianism as the major innovation of the twentieth century, Tzvetan Todorov examines the struggle between this system and democracy and its effects on human life and consciousness. Todorov explores the history of the past century not only by analyzing its spectacular political conflicts but also by offering moving profiles of several individuals who, at great personal cost, resisted the strictures of the Communist and Nazi regimes."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-326) and index.".
- catalog description "Prologue : the last hundred years -- What went wrong in the twentieth century -- Two of a kind -- Preserving the past -- The uses of memory -- The past in the present -- The perils of democracy -- Epilogue : the next hundred years.".
- catalog extent "xxii, 337 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0691096589 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng fre".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,".
- catalog subject "909.82 22".
- catalog subject "D443 .T5313 2003".
- catalog subject "World politics 20th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Prologue : the last hundred years -- What went wrong in the twentieth century -- Two of a kind -- Preserving the past -- The uses of memory -- The past in the present -- The perils of democracy -- Epilogue : the next hundred years.".
- catalog title "Hope and memory : lessons from the twentieth century / by Tzvetan Todorov ; translated by David Belos.".
- catalog title "Mémoire du mal, tentation du bien. English".
- catalog type "text".