The monk and his message: undermining the myth of history

Introduction : The reconstruction of history

The monk and his message

Necessary lies : the birth of history

Plato : history and the utopian vision

Passage from Asia

Kingdoms of God on earth

Destiny as progress

Hegel and the hinge of history

Marx inventing the spectre

Lenin : terror as the servant and master of history

Rival destinies : the totalitarians try to create history in the 1930s

War as the machine of history

The failure of fear

Export communism

The monolith lurches

The negation of ideology

Miraculous years

The possibility of the impossible

The monk's message vindicated

The local and the particular in true history

Zeroing in : Canada's impossible possibilities.