New Statesman, September 16, 2002
The day when heaven was falling; Eric Hobsbawm saw the October revolution
as the central reference point of the political universe. In this
exclusive
extract from his memoirs, he explains why, even when the crimes of Stalin
were exposed, he could not bring him
A question of faith
When Eric Hobsbawn came to England in the 1930s he became a Marxist and
began a distinguished academic career. His new autobiography reveals that
at 85 he remains an 'unrepentant communist'. Maya Jaggi on the historian
who made us fall in love with history again An orphan
