New World Disorder: The Leninist ExtinctionUniversity of California Press, 2023年4月28日 - 345 頁 Communism, 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. |
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... GORBACHEV : BOLSHEVIK OR MENSHEVIK ? 220 7. THE LENINIST EXTINCTION 249 8. THE LENINIST LEGACY 284 9. A WORLD WITHOUT LENINISM 306 Index 333 ୯ The phenomenon of Leninism should be seen in world- historical Contents.
... GORBACHEV : BOLSHEVIK OR MENSHEVIK ? 220 7. THE LENINIST EXTINCTION 249 8. THE LENINIST LEGACY 284 9. A WORLD WITHOUT LENINISM 306 Index 333 ୯ The phenomenon of Leninism should be seen in world- historical Contents.
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... historical terms . For the most part , history is " protestant , " char- acterized by highly diverse political , cultural , social , and eco- nomic institutions . Its " catholic " moments , when the intrinsic diversity of social life is ...
... historical terms . For the most part , history is " protestant , " char- acterized by highly diverse political , cultural , social , and eco- nomic institutions . Its " catholic " moments , when the intrinsic diversity of social life is ...
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... historical study never became central features of communist studies . There are many reasons : one is the difficulty of theorizing ; a second is the bias in favor of country or area study , one facilitated by the overwhelming cen ...
... historical study never became central features of communist studies . There are many reasons : one is the difficulty of theorizing ; a second is the bias in favor of country or area study , one facilitated by the overwhelming cen ...
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... historical reality . Solidarity signaled the origination of the individual national citizen and the extinction of the party cadre ; but , it may be hoped , not the end of our intellectual engage- ment with Leninism . These essays ...
... historical reality . Solidarity signaled the origination of the individual national citizen and the extinction of the party cadre ; but , it may be hoped , not the end of our intellectual engage- ment with Leninism . These essays ...
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... historical events did not play a critical role in the evolution of this doctrine and organization . Events after Christ's death make the importance of historical contin- gency quite clear.2 One does not have to slight history or soci ...
... historical events did not play a critical role in the evolution of this doctrine and organization . Events after Christ's death make the importance of historical contin- gency quite clear.2 One does not have to slight history or soci ...
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POLITICAL CULTURE IN LENINIST REGIMES | 50 |
INCLUSION | 88 |
NEOTRADITIONALISM | 121 |
MOSCOW CENTRE | 159 |
GORBACHEV BOLSHEVIK OR MENSHEVIK? | 220 |
THE LENINIST EXTINCTION | 249 |
THE LENINIST LEGACY | 284 |
A WORLD WITHOUT LENINISM | 306 |
Index | 333 |
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