The light that failed : a reckoning
Krastev, Ivan, 1965-2020
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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 psychology, Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes argue that the supposed end of history turned out to be only the beginning of an Age of Imitation. 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 Westernised.
Main title:
The light that failed : a reckoning / Ivan Krastev, Stephen Holmes.
Imprint:
London : Penguin Books, 2020.London : Penguin Books, 2020.
Collation:
256 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: UK: Allen Lane, 2019.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780141988108 (pbk)
Dewey class:
320.51
Language:
English
BRN:
2325183