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Essays examine the origins and evolution of world communism and explores how its legacies have shaped the post-Cold War world order.

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Essays examine the origins and evolution of world communism and explores how its legacies have shaped the post-Cold War world order.

Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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.

Reviews

"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*