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World Order after Leninism edited by Vladimir Tismaneanu, Marc Morje Howard, and Rudra Sil.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Post-communism.
- Political culture.
- Communist state.
- Communism.
- Political culture--Former communist countries.
- Political culture--Communist countries.
- Former communist countries.
- Communist countries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (310 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Chesham : Combined Academic [distributor], 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- World Order after Leninism examines the origins and evolution of world communism and explores how its legacies have shaped the post-Cold War world order. The lessons of Leninism continue to exert a strong influence in contemporary foreign affairs--most visibly in Poland and other post-communist states of the former Soviet Union, but also in China and other newly industrialized states balancing authoritarian impulses against the pressures of globalization, free markets, and democratic possibilities.World Order after Leninism began as a conversation among former students of Ken Jowitt, professor of political science at the University of California at Berkeley from 1970-2002 and whose monumental career transformed the fields of political science, Russian studies, and post-communist studies. Using divergent case studies, the essays in this volume document the ways in which Jowitt's exceptionally original work on Leninism's evolution and consolidation remains highly relevant in analyzing contemporary post-communist and post-authoritarian political transformations.
- Contents:
- Introduction, Ken Jowitt's universe / Rudra Sil and Marc Morjé Howard
- Lenin's century : Bolshevism, Marxism, and the Russian tradition / Vladimir Tismaneanu
- Leninist legacy revisited / Marc Morjé Howard
- Transition to what? : legacies and reform trajectories after communism / Grigore Pop-Eleches
- Institutions and the development of individualism : the case of western Poland after World War II / Tomek Grabowski
- Soviet Union as a reign of virtue : Aristotelian and Christian influences on modern Russian ethics and politics / Oleg Kharkhordin
- Slobodan Milošević : charismatic leader or plebiscitarian demagogue / Veljko Vujačić
- Social dimensions of collectivization : fomenting class struggle in Transylvania / Gail Kligman and Katherine Verdery
- Stages of development in authoritarian regimes / Barbara Geddes
- From neotraditionalism to neofamilism : responses to "national dependency" in newly industrialized countries / Yong-Chool Ha
- Leninism, developmental stages, and transformation : understanding social and institutional change in contemporary China / Calvin Chen
- Weber, Jowitt, and the dilemma of social science prediction / Stephen E. Hanson
- Evolving significance of Leninism in comparative historical analysis : theorizing the general and the particular / Rudra Sil
- Conjuring up a battlefront in the war on terror / Stephen Holmes
- Power of imaginative analogy : communism, faith, and leadership / Daniel Chirot.
- Notes:
- "Essays in honor of Ken Jowitt"--P. [v].
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780295802435
- 029580243X
- OCLC:
- 1273306665
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