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The Light That Failed: Why the West Is Losing the Fight for Democracy

✍ Scribed by Holmes, Stephen;Krastev, Ivan

Publisher: Pegasus Books
Year: 2020
Tongue: English
Weight: 183 KB
Category: Fiction
City: New York
ISBN: 1643133802

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✦ Synopsis

A landmark book that completely transforms our understanding of the crisis of liberalism, from two pre-eminent intellectuals.

Why did the West, after winning the Cold War, lose its political balance?

In the early 1990s, hopes for the eastward spread of liberal democracy were high. And yet the transformation of Eastern European countries gave rise to a bitter repudiation of liberalism itself, not only there but also back in the heartland of the West.

In this brilliant work of political history, Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes argue that the supposed end of Communism turned out to be only the beginning of the age of the autocrat. Reckoning with the history of the last thirty years, they show that the most powerful force behind the wave of populist xenophobia that began in Eastern Europe stems from resentment at the post-1989 imperative to become Westernized.

Through this prism, the Trump revolution represents an ironic...

✦ Subjects

HISTORY -- Europe -- Eastern

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