Eric Hobsbawm outlived his short twentieth century (1917-1991) past times to a greater extent than than xx years. And correct to the halt he was withal the object of scandal for having been far also long a communist. ‘You see’, he mightiness accept said, (‘you see’ was ane of his habitual linguistic tics) ‘there accept been many communists amidst major historians, precisely they left. Some stayed on the left (E.P. Thompson), around moved correct (Annie Kriegel, François Furet). I stayed until the end, the bitter end.’ You tin read the residual of PQ literary editor Donald Sassoon's obituary here.
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