Research Catalog

Title

World order after Leninism / edited by Vladimir Tismaneanu, Marc Morjé Howard, and Rudra Sil.

Publication

Seattle : Herbert J. Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies, University of Washington : In association with University of Washington, c2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Tismaneanu, Vladimir
• Howard, Marc Morjé
• Sil, Rudra, 1967-
• Jowitt, Kenneth

Description

viii, 301 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"World Order after Leninism brings together a distinguished group of scholars to examine the origins and evolution of world communism and explore 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 the post-communist states of the former Soviet Union, but also in many other European, Asian, and developing states balancing authoritarian impulses against the pressures of globalization, free markets, and democratic possibilities."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Communist state
• Post-communism
• Political culture > Communist countries
• Political culture > Former communist countries
• Communism

Note

• "Essays in honor of Ken Jowitt"--P. [v].

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-289) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 029598628X
• 9780295986289

LCCN

^^2006002428

OCLC

• 63178999
• SCSB-12254833

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library