Adam Hochschild Quotes

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Adam Hochschild (born October 5, 1942) is an American author, journalist, and historian, whose best-known works include King Leopold's Ghost (1998), Bury the Chains (2005), The Unquiet Ghost (1994), and Spain in Our Hearts (2016).

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It is always tempting to believe that a bad system is the fault of one bad man.

King Leopold's Ghost (1998)

One more aspect of the Russian Civil War reverberates directly with the conflict we are now watching play out. The war was not just about who would rule Russia, but about whom Russia would rule.

Why Putin Made Peace With the Soviets’ Archenemies (2022)

In a nation so deeply xenophobic to begin with, the ultimately victorious Communists never forgot the foreign troops who had tried to strangle their baby in its cradle.

Why Putin Made Peace With the Soviets’ Archenemies (2022)

From the colonial era, the major legacy Europe left to Africa was not democracy as it is practiced today in countries like England, France, and Belgium; it was authoritarian rule and plunder.

King Leopold's Ghost (1998)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Adam Hochschild (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.