Being Right at the Wrong Moment: Robert Conquest
Being Right at the Wrong Moment: Robert Conquest

Summary/Abstract: “How could the British make Dahrendorf a baron but Popper only a knight?” said a surprised German politician. He did not understand the British honours system, and indeed few people do. Eric Hobsbawm, never-resigning member of the Communist Party, was made Companion of Honour (to the Queen). Fair enough, for Hobsbawm did have substantial work to his credit. But why not other distinguished exiles, such as Leszek Kołakowski or for that matter Vladimir Bukovski, truly a hero of our age and author of Jugement à Moscou which will count as one of the classics on the Soviet Union and probably read when Hobsbawm is forgotten.

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