How Democracies Perish (1983)

by Jean-François Revel, Branko Lazitch

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Argues that the modern democracies are endangered by an excess of self-criticism and misinterpretations of moral positions and asserts that the democracies must cease to be the complacent victims of communism.

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
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Lazitch, Branko	—	main author	all editions	confirmed
Byron, William	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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Comment les démocraties finissent

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Democracy may, after all turn out to have been a historical accident, a brief parentheses that is closing before our eyes.

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Argues that the modern democracies are endangered by an excess of self-criticism and misinterpretations of moral positions and asserts that the democracies must cease to be the complacent victims of communism.

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