Kuongorora Hobsbawm's 2011 "How to Change the World" mu "The Wall Street Journal", Michael C. Moynihan akapokana: Kuongorora bhuku rimwe chete, Francis Wheen akapokana nenzira yakafanana: "Paanonyora nezvekuti mishandirapamwe yekurwisa-yechiFascist yema1930 yakaunza sei vatsva kuCommunist chikonzero, haakwanise kuzvitora kuti ataure chibvumirano cheHitler-Stalin, achinongedzera chete ku'zvikamu zvenguva pfupi zvakaita se1939 <unk> 41 '. Kupinda kweSoviet muHungary nokupwanya
yePrague Spring inodarika".