The book explores the complex interplay between idealism and terror during pivotal moments in history, specifically the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian Revolution of 1917. Mayer critiques the contemporary dismissal of violence in favor of a belief in peaceful progress through human rights and capitalism. By revisiting these revolutions, he challenges the notion that violence is an outdated or ineffective means of enacting change, highlighting its significant role in shaping modern society.
Arno J. Mayer Poradie kníh (chronologicky)
Arno Mayer je historik zameraný na modernú Európu, ktorého dielo skúma napätie medzi rýchlou hospodárskou modernizáciou a zaostalým politickým systémom. Tvrdí, že „Táto tridsaťročná kríza“ v rokoch 1914 až 1945 pramenila zo stretu dynamickej priemyselnej spoločnosti s rigidnou aristokratickou mocou. Mayer analyzuje, ako sa aristokracia snažila udržať si moc, čo viedlo k hlavným konfliktom 20. storočia. Jeho analýzy ponúkajú nový pohľad na korene svetových vojen a holokaustu.
Der Krieg als Kreuzzug
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In this classic work which analyzes the context in which thirty years of war and revolution wracked the European continent, the great historian Arno Mayer emphasizes the backwardness of the European economies and their political subjugation by aristocratic elites and their allies. Mayer turns upside down the vision of societies marked by modernization and forward-thrusting bourgeois and popular social classes, thereby transforming our understanding of the traumatic crises of the early twentieth century.