Essays examine the origins and evolution of world communism and explores how its legacies have shaped the post-Cold War world order.
Essays examine the origins and evolution of world communism and explores how its legacies have shaped the post-Cold War world order.
Introduction: Ken Jowitt's Universe / Rudra Sil and Marc Morje
Howard
I. Leninism and Its Legacy
1. Lenin's Century: Bolshevism, Marxism, and the Russian Tradition
/ Vladimir Tismaneanu
2. The Leninist Legacy Revisited / Marc Morje Howard
3. Transition to What? Legacies and Reform Trajectories after
Communism / Grigore Pop-Eleches
II. Identity and Social Transformation in Eastern Europe and
Russia
4. Institutions and the Development of Individualism: The Case of
Western Poland after World War II / Tomek Grabowski
5. The Soviet Union as a Reign of Virtue: Aristotelian and
Christian Influences on Modern Russian Ethics and Politics / Olig
Kharkhordin
6. Slobodon Milosovic: Charismatic Leader or Plebiscitarian
Demagogue? / Veljko Vujacic
7. Social Dimensions of Collectivization: Fomenting Class Struggle
in Transylvania / Gail Kligman and Katherine Verdery
III. Political, Economic, and Social Change: Beyond Eastern
Europe
8. Stages of Development in Authoritarian Regimes / Barbara
Geddes
9. From Neotraditionalism to Neofamilism: Responses to "National
Dependency" in Newly Industrialized Countries / Yong-Chool Ha
10. Leninism, Development Stages, and Transformation: Understanding
Social and Institutional Change in Contemporary China / Calvin
Chen
IV. Methodological Orientations
11. Weber, Jowitt, and the Dilemma of Social Science Prediction /
Stephen E. Hanson
12. The Evolving Significance of Leninism in Comparative Historical
Analysis: Theorizing the General and the Particular / Rudra Sil
V. The Big Picture
13. Conjuring Up a Battlefront in the War on Terror / Stephen
Holmes
14. The Power of Imaginative Analogy: Communism, Faith, and
Leadership / Daniel Chirot
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Contributors
Index
Vladimir Tismaneanu is professor of government and politics and director of the Center for Study of Post-Communist Societies at the University of Maryland, College Park. Marc Morje Howard is associate professor of government at Georgetown University. Rudra Sil is associate professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania.
"The book has a high degree of coherence and makes a substantial
contribution to our understanding of European communist systems and
successor regimes. A brief review cannot do justice to the depth of
the fourteen chapters."
*The Russian Review*
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