03887nam 2200661 450 99624810910331620230801215318.00-520-91378-70-585-04376-010.1525/9780520913783(CKB)111000211183368(dli)HEB05451(SSID)ssj0000210933(PQKBManifestationID)11197033(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000210933(PQKBWorkID)10291948(PQKB)10422578(DE-B1597)543791(OCoLC)1149476743(DE-B1597)9780520913783(MiU)MIU01000000000000007486109(MiAaPQ)EBC30495718(Au-PeEL)EBL30495718(EXLCZ)9911100021118336820230801h19931992 uy 0engurmnummmmuuuutxtccrNew World Disorder The Leninist Extinction /Ken JowittFirst edition.Berkeley, California :University of California Press,1993.©19921 online resource (ix, 342 p. )Includes index.0-520-08272-9 0-520-07762-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter --Contents --Preface --1. THE LENINIST PHENOMENON --2. POLITICAL CULTURE IN LENINIST REGIMES --3. INCLUSION --4. NEOTRADITIONALISM --5. "MOSCOW CENTRE" --6. GORBACHEV: BOLSHEVIK OR MENSHEVIK? --7. THE LENINIST EXTINCTION --8. THE LENINIST LEGACY --9. A WORLD WITHOUT LENINISM --IndexCommunism, or as Ken Jowitt prefers, Leninism, has attracted, repelled, mystified, and terrified millions for nearly a century. In his brilliant, timely, and controversial study, New World Disorder, Jowitt identifies and interprets the extraordinary character of Leninist regimes, their political corruption, extinction, and highly unsettling legacy. Earlier attempts to grasp the essence of Leninism have treated the Soviet experience as either a variant of or alien to Western history, an approach that robs Leninism of much of its intriguing novelty. Jowitt instead takes a "polytheist" approach, Weberian in tenor and terms, comparing the Leninist to the liberal experience in the West, rather than assimilating it or alienating it. Approaching the Leninist phenomenon in these terms and spirit emphasizes how powerful the imperatives set by the West for the rest of the world are as sources of emulation, assimilation, rejection, and adaptation; how unyielding premodern forms of identification, organization, and action are; how novel, powerful, and dangerous charisma as a mode of organized indentity and action can be. The progression from essay to essay is lucid and coherent. The first six essays reject the fundamental assumptions about social change that inform the work of modernization theorists. Written between 1974 and 1990, they are, we know now, startingly prescient. The last three essays, written in early 1991, are the most controversial: they will be called alarmist, pessimistic, apocalyptic. They challenge the complacent, optimistic, and self-serving belief that the world is being decisively shaped in the image of the West--that the end of history is at hand.ACLS Humanities E-Book.Communist statePolitical cultureCommunist countriesCommunismCommunist state.Political cultureCommunism.321.92Jowitt Kenneth1379829American Council of Learned Societies.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK996248109103316New World Disorder3420191UNISA