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Reflections on a Ravaged Century

By: Robert Conquest
Narrated by: Ron Butler
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Robert Conquest has been called by Paul Johnson "our greatest living modern historian". As a new century begins, Conquest offers an illuminating examination of our past failures and a guide to where we should go next. Graced with one of the most acute gifts for political prescience since Orwell, Conquest assigns responsibility for our century’s cataclysms not to impersonal economic or social forces but to the distorted ideologies of revolutionary Marxism and National Socialism. The final, sobering chapters of Reflections on a Ravaged Century concern themselves with some coming storms, notably that of the European Union, which Conquest believes is an economic, cultural, and geographical misconception divisive of the West and doomed to failure. Winner of the Ingersoll Prize; winner of the Richard M. Weaver Prize; a New York Times Notable Book.

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"Illuminates the past with a mighty searchlight and clears away mountains of nonsense." (Gabriel Schoenfeld, Wall Street Journal)
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Loved the book, loved the narration, thank you Ron! (There’s a lot on Russia here but that’s exactly what I was after :))

Awesome history book

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Extremely erudite and witty. His conclusions are thought provoking and though written some time ago now, still seem highly relevant to the great debates raging on today.

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