Robert Conquest
The Dragons of Expectation
Reality and Delusion in the Course of History
A landmark defense of civilization that
illuminates the political degradations
and intellectual fetishisms of our
politically correct world.
THE PUBLICATION of The Dragons of Expectation in
2005 reaffirmed Robert Conquest's stature as a leading
intellectual and one of the world's great humanists.
In the tradition of Isaiah Berlin's The Crooked
Timber of Humanity and George Orwell's Essays, this
book brilliantly traces how seductive ideas have come
to corrupt modern minds—to often disastrous
effects. In what Publishers Weekly called "a frontal
assault on the pieties of the left," Conquest masterfully
examines how false nostrums have infected academia,
politicians, and the public, showing how their
reliance on "isms" and the destructive concepts of
"People, Nation, and Masses" have resulted in a
ruinous cycle of turbulence and war. Including fresh
analyses of Russia's October Revolution, World War
II, and the Cold War, The Dragons of Expectation is one
of the most important contributions to modern
thought in recent years.
"Robert Conquest is our greatest living modern
historian."—Paul Johnson
ROBERT CONQUEST, author of Reflections
on a Ravaged Century and The Great Terror, is a
Fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution. He
lives in Stanford, California.
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Also Available:
Reflections on a Ravaged Century
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