Ideological storms

• Introduction
• p. 1

• Part 1
• Intellectuals and Communism in Europe

• Illusions of Influence and the Mystique of Power: The Fellow-Travelers and Stalin as Philosopher King
• p. 25

• Stalin and the Muse of History: The Dictator and His Critics on the Editing of the 1938 Short Course
• p. 41

• Resisting the Totalitarian Temptation: The Case of Ignazio Silone
• p. 63

• Greek Intellectuals and the Fascination with Communism: The Graft that Did Not Blossom (1924-1949)
• p. 81

• Shadows of Paradise: Romanian Intellectuals and the Soviet Union
• p. 99

• National Rebirth, Intellectuals, and the Rise of the Communist Regime in Romania (1944-1947)
• p. 125

• Part 2
• Revolution and Utopia

• Dictators and Intellectuals: Attractions and Affinities
• p. 159

• A "Beautiful" Dream: Mussolini's Delirium of Omnipotence and the Aesthetics of the Sublime
• p. 193

• The Metapolitics of Despair: Romania's Mystical Generation and the Passions of Emil Cioran
• p. 209

• Arthur Koestler and the Temptations of Utopianism
• p. 235

• Radical Engagements: Surrealism, Art, and Politics in Interwar Romania
• p. 251

• Part 3
• Visions of the Nation in Eastern Europe

• Ion Antonescu: The Temptation of Fascism
• p. 273

• Ethnopolitical Temptations Reach Southeastern Europe: The Wartime Policy Papers of Vasa cubrilovic
• p. 319

• Czech Communist Intellectuals and the "National Road to Socialism": Zdenek Nejedlý
• p. 345

• Party Intellectuals and Romanian National Stalinism
• p. 391

• Part 4
• Lessons at the Turn of a Century

• At War with Israel: Anti-Zionism in East Germany from the 1960s to the 1980s
• p. 415

• The Pathology of Arab Dictatorship: Memories of Saddam Hussein
• p. 441

• Calming the Ideological Storms? Reflections on Cold War Liberalism
• p. 465

• Fear and Freedom in Contemporary China
• p. 487

• Epilogue

• Political Innocence and Its Modes
• p. 511

• Contributors
• p. 523

• Index
• p. 529