The Devil in HistoryLIBRI, Storia Contemporanea, URSS venerdì,
settembre 21st, 2012 The Devil in History. Communism, Fascism,
and Some Lessons of the Twentieth Century The Devil in History
is a provocative analysis of the relationship between communism
and fascism. Reflecting the author’s personal experiences within
communist totalitarianism, this is a book about political
passions, radicalism, utopian ideals, and their catastrophic
consequences in the twentieth century’s experiments in social
engineering. Vladimir Tismaneanu brilliantly compares communism
and fascism as competing, sometimes overlapping, and
occasionally strikingly similar systems of political
totalitarianism. He examines the inherent ideological appeal of
these radical, revolutionary political movements, the visions of
salvation and revolution they pursued, the value and types of
charisma of leaders within these political movements, the place
of violence within these systems, and their legacies in
contemporary politics. The author discusses