World Order after Leninism - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 029598628X ISBN 13: 9780295986289

Publisher: University of Washington Press, 2006

Synopsis

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.

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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.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 029598628X
• ISBN 13: 9780295986289
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 309
• Editor: Tismaneanu Vladimir, Howard Marc Morje, Sil Rudra