Its original title was to be'The Burden of Our Times', and the move away from this may have helped to obscure the main thrust of the book, which is far from being a straightforward study of the Nazi and Stalinist totalitarianism it might appear.
Its original title was to be'The Burden of Our Times'; the book was in fact published as "The Burden of our Time" in Britain in 1951. The move away from this may have helped to obscure the main thrust of the book, which is far from being a straightforward study of the Nazi and Stalinist totalitarianism it might appear.