Dějiny 20. století – Johnson Paul (2022)

Johnson's work THE HISTORY OF THE 20TH CENTURY is a gripping story of this dreadful age of great technological inventions, immense wealth, and endless poverty and terror. The book caused a great stir in the West not only because it is masterfully written but mainly due to how ruthlessly it reveals the truth that is so uncomfortable for all leftist intellectuals. Everywhere the ideological state has taken hold, there is corruption of thought, oppression, and terror. Wherever the state intervenes in the market mechanism or even becomes an impersonal 'owner' of the economy, bribery, demoralization, and poverty prevail. Johnson does not set any limits when it comes to facts. The red thread of terror unfolds in Africa, Asia, and Latin America amidst the unexamined applause of Western intellectuals. However, the author sees the essence of evil in moral relativism, which has prevented liberal democracy from prevailing for decades. THE HISTORY OF THE 20TH CENTURY, which we publish in a masterful translation by Jan Čulík, is an indispensable textbook of modern historiography.