Paul Hollander (; 3 October 1932 – 9 April 2019) was a Hungarian-born

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, communist-studies scholar, and non-fiction author. He is known for his criticisms of

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and

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in general.

Background

Born in 1932 in Budapest, he lived in

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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. He fled to the West during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was bloodily put down by Soviet forces. First he escaped Austria and then to England.

Career

Hollander earned a Ph.D in

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from

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, 1963 and a B.A. from the

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, 1959. He was Professor of Sociology at the

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and a Center Associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at

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. The anti-communist scholar 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. He was a member of the national advisory council of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.

Bibliography

Books

* *'' Political Pilgrims'' (1981) *''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) Editor *''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

References

External links

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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." * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hollander, Paul 1932 births 2019 deaths American male non-fiction writers American political writers American sociologists Harvard University people Hungarian emigrants to the United States American people of Hungarian-Jewish descent Princeton University alumni Quadrant (magazine) people University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty Political sociologists 20th-century social scientists 21st-century social scientists Hungarian anti-communists Alumni of the London School of Economics Jewish American social scientists 21st-century American Jews