“The world that went to pieces at the end of the 1980's was the world shaped by the impact of the Russian Revolution of 1917.”

— Eric Hobsbawm, book The Age of Extremes

The Age of Extremes (1992)

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British academic historian and Marxist historiographer 1917–2012

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