Paul Hollander
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Paul Hollander is an American
scholar, journalist
, and conservative political writer
. He is known for his criticisms of Communism
and left-wing politics
. In 1956, he escaped to the west from his native country. He has a Ph.D in Sociology
from Princeton University
, 1963 and a B.A. from the London School of Economics
, 1959. He is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
and a Center Associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University
. He is the author of Political Pilgrims and Anti-Americanism and the editor of Understanding Anti-Americanism: Its Origins and Impact at Home and Abroad. He is a member of the advisory council of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation
.
United States
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scholar, journalist
Journalist
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, and conservative political writer
Writer
A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
. He is known for his criticisms of Communism
Communism
Communism is a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of a classless, moneyless, revolutionary and stateless socialist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production...
and left-wing politics
Left-wing politics
In politics, Left, left-wing and leftist generally refer to support for social change to create a more egalitarian society...
. In 1956, he escaped to the west from his native country. He has a Ph.D in Sociology
Sociology
Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...
from Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
, 1963 and a B.A. from the London School of Economics
London School of Economics
The London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London...
, 1959. He is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
University of Massachusetts Amherst
The University of Massachusetts Amherst is a public research and land-grant university in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States and the flagship of the University of Massachusetts system...
and a Center Associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
. He is the author of Political Pilgrims and Anti-Americanism and the editor of Understanding Anti-Americanism: Its Origins and Impact at Home and Abroad. He is a member of the advisory council of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation
Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation
The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation is a non-profit educational organization in the United States, established as a result of an Act of Congress in 1993 with the purpose to commemorate "the deaths of over 100,000,000 victims in an unprecedented imperial communist holocaust"...
.
Works
- Paul Hollander, Anti-Americanism: Irrational & Rational, Transaction Publishers (January 1, 1995), trade paperback, ISBN 1-56000-774-5
- Paul Hollander, forward, Alexander YakovlevAlexander YakovlevAlexander Yakovlev is the name of:*Alexander Yevgenievich Yakovlev , modernist painter*Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev , so-called "godfather of glasnost" and ally of Mikhail Gorbachev in the 1980s...
, author, Anthony Austin, translator, Century of Violence in Soviet Russia, Yale University Press (September 1, 2002), hardcover, 254 pages, ISBN 0-300-08760-8 - Anne ApplebaumAnne ApplebaumAnne Elizabeth Applebaum is a journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author who has written extensively about communism and the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe. She has been an editor at The Economist, and a member of the editorial board of The Washington Post...
, foreword, Paul Hollander, introduction and editor, From the Gulag to the Killing Fields: Personal Accounts of Political Violence And Repression in Communist States, Intercollegiate Studies Institute (April 17, 2006), hardcover, 760 pages, ISBN 1-932236-78-3 - Paul Hollander, The Only Super Power: Reflections on Strength, Weakness, and Anti-Americanism, Lexington Books (November 28, 2008), hardcover, 291 pages, ISBN 978-0739125434
External links
- Video of lecture at The Heritage Foundation . Washington, D.C. 06.28.06. Mr. Hollander explains that while communism was developed to create a new sense of community, a more accurate description of the political ideology would be "violence with a higher purpose."
- Articles in New Criterion Subscription required.
- "Which God Has Failed" New Criterion" February, 2002