Often, when we read, we come across a voice that resonates with us at a certain period in the story of our life. History, some argue, are the moments of human activity, with all their emotional experiences and contingency [perhaps if it wasn't raining that day at the barricades, the 1919 German Revolution might have birthed a Soviet Germany rather than a Wiemar Republic], that builds up to create certain events that affect the world in profound and life-altering ways. We are living in one of those historical moments.
