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Book SynopsisExamines the origins and evolution of world communism and explores how its legacies have shaped the post-Cold War world order. This book uses divergent case studies to document the ways in which the work on Leninism's evolution and consolidation is relevant in analyzing contemporary post-communist and post-authoritarian political transformations.
Trade Review"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 *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: 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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