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The Light That Failed

The Light That Failed

Why the West Is Losing the Fight for Democracy

by Stephen Holmes and Ivan Krastev
Hardback
Publication Date: 07/01/2020

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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 fulfillment of the promise that the nations exiting from communist rule would come to resemble the United States. In a strange twist, Trump has elevated Putin's Russia and Orba n's Hungary into models for the United States.

Written by two pre-eminent intellectuals bridging the East/West divide, The Light That Failed is a landmark book that sheds light on the extraordinary history of the fall of the Western ideal.
ISBN:
9781643133690
9781643133690
Category:
European history
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
07-01-2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
Pegasusbooks
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
228.6x152.4x30.48mm
Weight:
0.41kg
Stephen Holmes

Stephen Holmes is Professor of Law at NYU School of Law and the author of many books on liberalism.

Ivan Krastev

Ivan Krastev is a fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, a contributing opinion writer for the International New York Times and, most recently, the author of the widely acclaimed After Europe.

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