Alain Besancon

About The Author

Alain Besancon is Director of Studies at L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. A specialist in Russian politics and intellectual history, he is the author of The Forbidden Image: An Intellectual History of Iconoclasm and The Falsification of the Good: Soloviev and Orwell. This is the fourth book of Besancon's to appear in English.

Books by Alain Besancon

A Century of Horrors

Communism, Nazism, and the Uniqueness of the Shoah

By Alain Besancon
Translated by Ralph Hancock
The twentieth century bears the indelible imprint of both communism and Nazism. Today, it sometimes seems as if the former is all but forgotten, at least among Western elites, while our cultural memory of the latter is an inextinguishable fire. This inequality is surprising and calls out for expl...
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