Reflections of a veteran pessimist : contemplating modern Europe, Russia, and Jewish history /
"Having been exposed early in life to the dangers of extreme nationalism, journalist and historian Walter Laqueur chose to align his thinking with Victor Hugo's ideal of a "European Brotherhood" where the European nations would merge into a "superior unit" overcoming wa...
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New Brunswick (U.S.A.) :
Transaction Publishers,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1: Europe in decline (but not yet finished). Europe
- the years ahead ; Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay (Locksley Hall) ; No abyss, no apocalypse ; Islamic Fascism, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism ; Lessons from Oslo ; The refugees are coming ; Muslims in Europe ; An anxious continent Spiegel interview, July 26, 2013
- Chapter 2: Jews in the twentieth century. Degenerate art and the Jewish grandmother ; The terrible secret: a second look ; Love in the shadow of death ; The Scholems ; On Russian Jewry today ; Timothy Snyder: the Newton of the Holocaust ; The Walter Benjamin brigade ; Hitler's Jews: Max von Oppenheim and the myth of German Jewish guilt ; Oppenheim biographer Lionel Gossman responds to Walter Laqueur's review
- Chapter 3: Russia after the Soviet Union. Détente plus? How should the West deal with Russia? ; The Russian enigma: is the bear turning east? ; Anti-Semitism and the new Russian idea ; Confabulation? ; Russian nationalism: going back to the roots ; The Russian party under the Soviets ; Central Asia
- toward 2050 ; Toward a new Russian ideology ; Author's postscript
- Chapter 4: observations. Cyber warfare ; Nazi Germany: secret reports? ; Who needs geography? ; Luethy and Brecht: martyrdom in Hollywood ; Megaloglossa ; Old age ; A historical education: a wanderer between several worlds.
