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Was Eric Hobsbawm A Dangerous Communist?

21 mins | Jan 24, 2019

Was Eric Hobsbawm a dangerous Communist? Richard J Evans, writing in The Guardian, reveals that, although Hobsbawm was branded a Stalinist and was spied on for decades by MI5, the famous historian’s private papers contradict his reputation as a hardliner and renegade.