Eric hobsbawm brief biography of mahatma

BIOGRAPHY & BRIEF INTRODUCTION

     Eric Hobsbawm was born into a Jewish family in 1927 to an Austrian mother British Father. When he was born, they were living in Alexandria.

Soon after, they moved to Austria.

Eric hobsbawm brief biography of mahatma

Following his parents’ death, he moved to Germany to live with his aunt who adopted him and his sister. When Hitler came into power in 1933, they moved to England. He experienced the rise of fascism in Vienna and Berlin. His political stance and historiography were likely affected by this cosmopolite background.

Hobsbawm graduated from the University of Cambridge and lectured in Italy, the U.S., England, and South America.

Eric hobsbawm brief biography of mahatma gandhi

He became a member of The Association of Socialist Pupils at the age of 14 and of the Communist Party when he was 19. During the Soviet Invasion of Hungary in 1956, most of its members left the British Communist Party, but Hobsbawm and a few colleagues did not.

Yet he protested the Soviet invasion of Hungary and was in favour of the Prague Spring.