Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part One INTELLECTUALS AND COMMUNISM IN EUROPE
5. Illusions of Influence and the Mystique of Power: The Fellow-Travelers and Stalin as Philosopher King 25
6. Stalin and the Muse of History: The Dictator and His Critics on the Editing of the 1938 Short Course 41
7. Resisting the Totalitarian Temptation: The Case of Ignazio Silone 63
8. Greek Intellectuals and the Fascination with Communism: The Graft that Did Not Blossom (1924–1949) 81
9. Shadows of Paradise: Romanian Intellectuals and the Soviet Union 99
10. National Rebirth, Intellectuals, and the Rise of the Communist Regime in Romania (1944–1948) 125
11. Part Two REVOLUTION AND UTOPIA
12. Dictators and Intellectuals: Attractions and Affinities 159
13. A “Beautiful” Dream: Mussolini’s Delirium of Omnipotence and the Aesthetics of the Sublime 193
14. The Metapolitics of Despair: Romania’s Mystical Generation and the Passions of Emil Cioran 209
15. Arthur Koestler and the Temptations of Utopianism 235
16. Radical Engagements: Surrealism, Art, and Politics in Interwar Romania 251
17. Part Three VISIONS OF THE NATION IN EASTERN EUROPE
18. Ion Antonescu: The Temptation of Fascism 273
19. Ethnopolitical Temptations Reach Southeastern Europe: The Wartime Policy Papers of Vasa Čubrilović and Sabin Manuilă 319
20. Czech Communist Intellectuals and the “National Road to Socialism”: Zdeněk Nejedlý and Karel Kosík, 1945–1968 345
21. Party Intellectuals and Romanian National Stalinism 391
22. Part Four LESSONS AT THE TURN OF A CENTURY
23. At War with Israel: Anti-Zionism in East Germany from the 1960s to the 1980s 415
24. The Pathology of Arab Dictatorship: Memories of Saddam Hussein 441
25. Calming the Ideological Storms? Reflections on Cold War Liberalism 465
26. Fear and Freedom in Contemporary China 487
27. Epilogue
28. Political Innocence and Its Modes 511
29. Contributors 523
30. Index 529