When it was released in 1994, the British historian Eric Hobsbawm’s The Age of Extremes was a global bestseller, translated into many languages. It was a sensation in Brazil, for example, where ...

Hobsbawm could lay claim to being the most popular and well-known historian in the world. But he was also a Marxist who remained unapologetic about his decadeslong membership in the Communist Party.

Eric Hobsbawm was a historian and a Communist. The first pursuit brought him great success. When he died, in 2012, at the age of ninety-five, nearly all of his books were still in print, his ...

Hobsbawm serves up no panaceas; but he does define the problem with penetrating clarity and he does suggest that any solution, from the most humane to the least humane, will probably have to be ...

Eric J. Hobsbawm, whose upbringing amid the rise of European fascism provoked loyalty to the Communist Party long after it had been discredited and shaped his scholarly career as an influential ...

Eric Hobsbawm recently wrote an article in the Guardian about the Spanish Civil War, partly in memory of the 70th anniversary of that war, and partly to trail his forthcoming book Globalisation ...

Hobsbawm was very much on my mind after that encounter. A couple of years later, I was able to meet the grand old man myself, at his house in London, for a cup of tea, followed by a glass of whiskey.

In England, listeners Start the Week with the BBC radio program of that name, a superior chat show about new books and whatnot. On Monday, June 9, 1997, one of the guests was Eric Hobsbawm, who ...

Hobsbawm joined the Communist Party as a very young man, and was loyal, in his way, to the end. Communism also offered, as perhaps no non-religious ideas do today, a sense of community.

Hobsbawm joined the Communist Party as a very young man, and was loyal, in his way, to the end. Communism also offered, as perhaps no non-religious ideas do today, a sense of community.