Paul Hollander
Paul Hollander | |
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| Born | October 3, 1932 |
| Died | April 9, 2019 (aged 86) |
Paul Hollander (
Background
Born in 1932 in Budapest, he lived in Hungary with his Jewish family. When the Nazis persecuted Jews throughout the city, he had to hide from them when he was 12. His family was deported to work, after the communists came to power.[4]
He fled to the West during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was bloodily put down by Soviet forces.[5] First he escaped Austria and then to England.[4]
Career
Hollander earned a Ph.D in
The anti-communist scholar[7] wrote many books and articles. He is best known for his works Political Pilgrims: Western Intellectuals In Search of the Good Society, published in 1981, and Anti-Americanism, published in 1992.[8]
He was a member of the national advisory council of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.
Works
- Books Authored
- Hollander, Paul (1973). Soviet and American society : a comparison.
- Political Pilgrims (1981)[9]
- The Many Faces of Socialism (1983)
- The Survival of the Adversary Culture (1988)
- Decline and Discontent (1992)
- Anti-Americanism: Critiques at Home and Abroad (1992)
- Political Will and Personal Belief: The Decline and Fall of Soviet Communism (1999)
- Discontents: Postmodern and Postcommunist (2002)
- The End of Commitment (2006)
- The Only Super Power (2009)
- Extravagant Expectations (2011)
- From Benito Mussolini to Hugo Chávez: Intellectuals and a Century of Political Hero Worship (2016)
- Books Edited
- American and Soviet Society (1969)
- Understanding Anti-Americanism (2004)
- From the Gulag to the Killing Fields (2006)
- Political Violence: Belief, Behavior and Legitimation (2008)
- Articles
- Hollander, Paul (October 1995). "Digesting the collapse of communism : responses of Western intellectuals". Quadrant. 39 (10): 64–70.
References
- ISBN 9781857434286.
- ^ "Paul Hollander Obituary (2019) Daily Hampshire Gazette". Legacy.com.
- ^ Jay Nordlinger, Hollander’s Clear Eye Archived 2011-08-11 at the Wayback Machine, July 22, 2004, National Review Online.
- ^ a b Dalrymple, Theodore (16 April 2019). "The Beauty of Honesty". City Journal. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
- ^ "Paul Hollander, In Memoriam". Law & Liberty. 19 April 2019. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
- ^ His page at the Davis Center Archived 2006-09-01 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Blog, 22 April 2019 (22 April 2019). "Paul Hollander (1932-2019)". European Conservative. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Paul Hollander, 1932–2019". www.newcriterion.com. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
- ^ Cotte, Simon (24 July 2015). "Pilgrims to the Islamic State". The Atlantic. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
Further reading
- "Which God Has Failed", The New Criterion (February 2002)
External links
- Hollander at the Davis Center at Harvard University.
- Hollander articles at New Criterion
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Video of lecture at The Heritage Foundation . Washington, D.C. 06.28.06. Mr. Hollander explains that while communism was developed to create a new sense of community, a more accurate description of the political ideology would be "violence with a higher purpose."
- Works by or about Paul Hollander at Internet Archive
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