Paul Hollander
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Background
Born in 1932 in Budapest, he lived in Hungary 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.[4]
He fled to the West during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was bloodily put down by Soviet forces.[5] First he escaped Austria and then to England.[4]
Career
Hollander earned a Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University, 1963 and a B.A. from the London School of Economics, 1959. He was Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a Center Associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University.[6]
The anti-communist scholar[7] 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.[8]
He was a member of the national advisory council of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. Before his death, he compared Donald Trump with the dictators Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin and Mao Zedong.[9]
Works
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- Books Authored
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- Political Pilgrims (1981)[10]
- 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)
- Books Edited
- 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
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References
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Further reading
- "Which God Has Failed", The New Criterion (February 2002)
External links
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- Hollander at the Davis Center at Harvard University.
- Hollander articles at New Criterion
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- 1932 births
- 2019 deaths
- American male non-fiction writers
- American political writers
- American sociologists
- 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 political scientists
- 21st-century social scientists
- Hungarian anti-communists
- Alumni of the London School of Economics
- Jewish American social scientists
- 21st-century American Jews
- Harvard University staff