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'Truly superb - a magnificent achievement. It is hard to imagine how a better - and more readable - history of the emergence of today's Europe from the ashes of 1945 could ever be written; I can't think of another work on the latter half of the 20th century that comes close to matching it... All in all, a real masterpiece'.
Europe in 1945 was prostrate. Much of the continent was devastated by war, mass slaughter, bombing and chaos. Large areas of Eastern Europe were falling under Soviet control, exchanging one despotism for another. Today, the Soviet Union is no more and the democracies of the European Union reach as far as the borders of Russia itself. Postwar tells the rich and complex story of how we got from there to here. Running right up to the Iraq War and the election of Benedict XVI, Postwar makes sense of Europe's recent history and identity, of what Europe is and has been. It is nothing less than a masterpiece.

«Ця книжка є історичною розвідкою, біографією та етичним трактатом», — вважає один із її співавторів американський історик Тімоті Снайдер. У фокусі його розмов із Тоні Джадтом – «історія сучасних політичних ідей у Європі та Сполучених Штатах; влада і справедливість у розумінні ліберальних, соціалістичних, комуністичних, націоналістичних і фашистських інтелектуалів від кінця XIX до початку XXI століть». На думку Тімоті Снайдера, одними із найважливіших у їхніх розмовах із Тоні Джадтом стали «роздуми про обмеження (і здатність до відродження) політичних ідей, а також про моральні поразки (і обов’язки) інтелектуалів у політиці».

Водночас «Роздуми про ХХ століття» — це також і біографія історика й есеїста Тоні Джадта, який народився в Лондоні в середині XX століття, після катаклізмів Другої світової війни та Голокосту, у час, коли комуністи утверджували владу у Східній Європі.

We have entered an age of forgetting. Our world, we insist, is unprecedented, wholly new. The past has nothing to teach us. Drawing provocative connections between a dazzling range of subjects, from Jewish intellectuals and the challenge of evil in the recent European past to the interpretation of the Cold War and the displacement of history by heritage, the late historian Tony Judt takes us beyond what we think we know of the past to explain how we came to know it, showing how much of our history has been sacrificed in the triumph of myth-making over understanding and denial over memory. Reappraisals offers a much-needed road map back to the historical sense we urgently need.

A gift to the next generation of engaged citizens, from one of our most celebrated intellectuals.

As the economic collapse of 2008 made clear, the social contract that defined postwar life in Europe and America-the guarantee of security, stability, and fairness-is no longer guaranteed; in fact, it's no longer part of the common discourse. Tony Judt, one of our leading historians and thinkers, offers the language we need to address our common needs, rejecting the nihilistic individualism of the far Right and the debunked socialism of the past. In reintroducing alternatives to the status quo, Judt invigorates our political conversation, furnishing the tools necessary to imagine a new form of governance and a better way of life.

"When the facts change, I change my mind--what do you do, sir?"

A great thinker’s final testament: a characteristically wise and forthright collection of essays spanning a career of extraordinary intellectual engagement

In an age in which there has been an erosion of fact-based journalism and the lack of independent public intellectuals has often been sorely lamented, Tony Judt played a rare and valuable role, bringing together history and current events, Europe and America, the world as it was and as it is with what it should be. In When the Facts Change, Tony Judt’s widow and fellow historian Jennifer Homans has assembled an essential collection of Judt’s most important and influential pieces written in the last fifteen years of his life, when he found his voice in the public sphere. These seminal essays reflect the full range of Judt’s concerns, including Europe as an idea and in reality; Israel, the Holocaust, and the Jews; American hyperpower and the world after 9/11; and issues of social inclusion and social justice in a time of increasing inequality.

Judt believed his real job was not to say what wasn't but to say what was--to tell a convincing, clear story from available evidence, and to do it with a view of what was right and what was just. This was not only a duty, but a moral responsibility for Judt and When the Facts Change is a testament to his legacy.

“I am enthusiastically European; no informed person could seriously wish to return to the embattled, mutually antagonistic circle of suspicious and introverted nations that was the European continent in the quite recent past. But it is one thing to think an outcome desirable, quite another to suppose it is possible. It is my contention that a truly united Europe is sufficiently unlikely for it to be unwise and self-defeating to insist upon it. I am thus, I suppose, a Euro-pessimist.”

«Шале пам’яті» — це мемуари, не схожі на будь-які інші. Кожен есей вносить найменші подробиці особистого досвіду в більші рамки історії. Їжа, поїзди та запахи оживають, коли Джадт веде нас з повоєнного Лондона свого дитинства через Париж, Прагу й потрапляє до Нью-Йорка, де він і знайшов свій дім.
Завдяки моральній чистоті та природній дотепності Джадту вдається поєднати в собі все — від захоплення

Как обретают историческую генеалогию феномены современной политики и идеологии? Чья память доминирует на многоуровневом имперском и постимперском пространстве и как обеспечивается это доминирование? Что характерно для культуры памяти в посткоммунистических обществах? На эти и другие вопросы отвечают статьи профессиональных историков, собранные в книге "Империя и нация в зеркале исторической памяти".

Past Imperfect is a forthright and uncommonly damning study of those intellectually volatile years [1944-1956]. Mr. Judt does more than simply describe the ideological acrobats of his subjects; he is a sharp, even a vindictive moralist who indicts these intellectuals for their inhumanity in failing to test their political thought against political reality' -John Sturrock, New York Times Book Review

The text focuses first on the impact of the Marshall plan on the organization of political and economic life in post-war Europe and how the plan was perceived in European public opinion. It then examines its role in the construction of European