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Hope and memory lessons from the twentieth century

"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
Print Book, English, cop. 2003
Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., cop. 2003
1 vol. (XXII-337 p.) ; 24 cm
9780691096582, 0691096589
800833024
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
Trad. de : "Mémoire du mal, tentation du bien : enquête sur le siècle."