Albert Camus, Jean—Paul Sartr, Simone de Beauvoir and other outstanding representatives of French intellectual elite pretended not to see the crimes against humanity in the Stalinized Soviet Union and tried to protect its aggressive external policy in Eastern Europe. Why the cream of French intelligentsia who were heralds of “Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité” justified the communist terror and became the attorney of one of the most bloody regimes in the history of mankind? In his fundamental work “Past Imperfect — French Intellectuals, 1944—1956″ a professor of European studies at NY University Tony Judt explains the origins of this blind faith in communism among French intellectuals and reveals the weaknesses of the liberal values in French society and propensity for idealization of the theory of general equality (Judt calls it “the grand theory”). Besides analyzing the nature of French devotion to communism the author also debunks the myth about the leading role of the Resistance and its mass support by the nation during German occupation.

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