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    Franz Borkenau (December 15, 1900 – May 22, 1957) was an Austrian writer. Borkenau was born in Vienna, Austria, the son of a civil servant. As a university...
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  • Borkenau is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Franz Borkenau (1900–1957), Austrian writer and publicist Moritz Borkenau (1827–1904)...
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  • to have developed into red fascism. The term is often attributed to Franz Borkenau, a key proponent of the theory of totalitarianism (which posits that...
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    VII, at 164. A Study of History, Volume 1, Section VII, at 135–139. Franz Borkenau, "Toynbee's Judgment of the Jews: Where the Historian Misread History"...
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  • Spanish Cockpit is a personal account of the Spanish Civil War written by Franz Borkenau and published in late 1937. It was based on his two wartime visits to...
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  • Berlin in June 1950 were writers, philosophers, critics and historians: Franz Borkenau, Karl Jaspers, John Dewey, Ignazio Silone, Jacques Maritain, James Burnham...
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    the term totalitarianism in the English language was Austrian writer Franz Borkenau in his 1938 book The Communist International, in which he commented...
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  • History of Socialism in Russia, 1917–1991 (New York: Free Press, 1995). Franz Borkenau, World Communism (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1962);...
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    requisitioned and the forbidden books retired and burned. Austrian author Franz Borkenau was sharply critical of the anarchists in Catalonia. In a book which...
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  • war, notably "Spilling the Spanish Beans" and a praiseful review of Franz Borkenau's The Spanish Cockpit. Writing from his cottage at Wallington, Hertfordshire...
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    writers, philosophers, critics and historians: Raymond Aron, Alfred Ayer, Franz Borkenau, Irving Brown, James Burnham, Benedetto Croce, John Dewey, Sidney Hook...
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    Melvin J. Lasky, Ignazio Silone, Arthur Koestler, Raymond Aron and Franz Borkenau that resulted in the founding of the CIA front group Congress for Cultural...
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    Tide "Franz Borkenau on the Communist International" 22 September 1938 CEJL I, CW XI, OP Review of The Communist International by Franz Borkenau, published...
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    In Socialism: National or International, first published in 1942, Franz Borkenau described Mazzini as "that impressive Genoese" and "leader of the Italian...
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    review of The War in Spain by Ramon Sender, and The Spanish Cockpit by Franz Borkenau) – Left Review, September 1937 “On a Summer's Day” (story) – Lilliput...
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    historian Hugh Trevor-Roper, Ayer fought against Arthur Koestler and Franz Borkenau, arguing that they were far too dogmatic and extreme in their anti-communism...
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  • historian, feminist Thomas Bach (born 1953), lawyer, former fencer Franz Borkenau (1900–1957), social scientist Gottfried Gabriel Bredow (1773–1814),...
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  • it on the piano". As early as the late 1940s, the Austrian scholar Franz Borkenau contended that the Soviet government was not a monolithic totalitarian...
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    psychologist Franz Exner (1881–1947), criminologist Karl von Frisch (1886–1982), ethologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1973 Franz Borkenau (1900–1957)...
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    socialism towards a form of elitism may be attributed to Pareto's ideas. Franz Borkenau, a biographer, argued that Mussolini followed Pareto's policy ideas...
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  • beginning on the Generations of cultures and the Origins of the West by Franz Borkenau, New York: Columbia University Press, 1981, 0231050666. Widerstand und...
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  • intellectuals (André Malraux, Denis de Rougemont, Arthur Koestler, Franz Borkenau, Andre Gide, Raymond Aron, Bertrand Russell, Michael Polanyi, and others)...
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    Eastern Bloc. Contributors included Theodor Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Franz Borkenau, Thomas Mann, Arthur Koestler, Raymond Aron, Ignazio Silone, Heinrich...
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    publicists, collaborating with other left-wing critics of Stalinism such as Franz Borkenau and Margarete Buber-Neumann and emigrants from Eastern Europe. As an...
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    of the Ego (1922), a perfect example of the collective mental state. Franz Borkenau wrote of collective madness, while many writers have discussed collective...
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  • philosophical status of the concept: while Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Franz Borkenau and many others accepted the existence of a collective mind or collective...
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  • intellectuals affirmed most vehemently the need for resistance to communism: Franz Borkenau (member of the Communist Party of Austria until 1929), Sidney Hook (Communist...
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    (Penguin)) Gordon Bowker, Orwell p. 224 ; Orwell, writing in his review of Franz Borkenau's The Spanish Cockpit in Time and Tide, 31 July 1937, and "Spilling the...
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  • exiles from Nazi Germany in Britain that included Julius Braunthal and Franz Borkenau. Her long article "The Underground Struggle in Germany", published under...
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  • Daniel Berthet Burnett Bolloten – Associated Press or United Press Franz Borkenau – London Daily Express, Austrian journalist who went on to write The...
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