The Madhouse Of Change

The Madhouse of ChangeAfter the Second World War, I spent two years (1947--1948) writing a small book on the nature of mass movements, which Harper later published under the title The True Believer. These were two years of utmost concentration and absorption. Yet even as I was writing the book, there was something tugging at my mind, making me wonder whether my attempt to make sense of the Stalin-Hitler decades would have relevance to what was taking place in the post-War world, particularly to...