is known as a combative writer Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century

striking detail documented how nations are never honest about their pasts, and how quickly
inconvenient truths are buried.

Tony Judt, “Past Is Another Country: Myth and Memory in Postwar Europe” in Istvan Deak, Jan
T. Gross, and Tony Judt, eds., ​The Politics of Retribution in Europe: World War II and Its​ ​Aftermath
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000), 293-323

“​Past Is Another Country: Myth and Memory in Postwar Europe”

Title explained: For the old generations, living in present presupposes the transition of the
adjustment process any emigrant faces. It took more than 50 to Europe to understand the
catastrophe of the WWII provincial understanding, if it is not lost…

At three years from the article published​, in the Bucharest conference that TJ held at NEC

Nine years after the conference,

his panoramic study of Europe after 1945, was loudly acclaimed in part because it dealt so
bracingly with the lies and cover-ups on which the rebuilding of the continent depended
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acid dismissals of "romantic" communists and their fellow travelers

Motto Hans-Magnus Enzensberger ​The memory of the period is incomplete and provincial, it
is not only entirely lost in repression or nostalgia.

2005-​ The Anglo-American model with its cult of privatisation is not only ethically
dysfunctional, but will soon be seen to be economically dysfunctional.

Main concepts proper to Tony Judt when it comes to Romania and transitional …

"After 1989," he has written, "nothing - not the future, not the present and above all not the past -
would ever be the same."

Postwar, which came out in 2005, suggested that "what binds Europeans together ... is what it
has become conventional to call - in disjunctive contrast with 'the American way of life' - the
'European social model'."

as his opinions "aren't regarded as especially unconventional in the rest of the world".
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its successor swaddled in self-serving half-truths: the triumph of the West, the end of History, the
unipolar American moment, the ineluctable march of globalization and the free market.