Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Yin nazarin Hobsbawm na 2011 "Yadda za a canza Duniya" a cikin "The Wall Street Journal", Michael C. Moynihan ya yi jayayya: Yin nazarin wannan littafin, Francis Wheen yayi jayayya a cikin irin wannan yanayi: "Lokacin rubuta game da yadda yakin neman zabe na 'yan adawa na 1930s ya kawo sabbin ma'aikata ga kwaminisanci, ba zai iya kawo kansa ba don ambaci yarjejeniyar Hitler-Stalin, yana nufin kawai ga' abubuwan da suka faru na wucin gadi kamar 1939 <unk> 41 '. Soviet mamayewa na Hungary da kuma murkushewa
na Prague Spring an tsallake shi. "