{"product_id":"a-specter-haunting-europe","title":"A Specter Haunting Europe","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Masterful An indispensable warning for our own time.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Samuel Moyn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Magisterial Covers this dark history with insight and skill A major intervention into our understanding of 20th-century Europe and the lessons we ought to take away from its history.\"\u003cbr\u003e-\u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor much of the last century, Europe was haunted by a threat of its own imagining: Judeo-Bolshevism. The belief that Communism was a Jewish plot to destroy the nations of Europe took hold during the Russian Revolution and quickly spread. During World War II, fears of a Judeo-Bolshevik conspiracy were fanned by the fascists and sparked a genocide. But the myth did not die with the end of Nazi Germany. \u003ci\u003eA Specter Haunting Europe\u003c\/i\u003e shows that this paranoid fantasy persists today in the toxic politics of revitalized right-wing nationalism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It is both salutary and depressing to be reminded of how enduring the trope of an exploitative global Jewish conspiracy against pure, humble, and selfless nationalists really is A century after the end of the first world war, we have, it seems, learned very little.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Mark Mazower, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"From the start, the fantasy held that an alien element-the Jews-aimed to subvert the cultural values and national identities of Western societies The writers, politicians, and shills whose poisonous ideas he exhumes have many contemporary admirers.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Robert Legvold, \u003ci\u003eForeign Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paul Hanebrink","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42818398781501,"sku":"9780674244764","price":37.76,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9780674244764_a5d3cc31-9358-4631-a39c-96ead97882f1.jpg?v=1766919336","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/a-specter-haunting-europe","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}