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. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992. 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 extraordinar |
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第 1 到 5 筆結果,共 55 筆
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... revolutionary figures of Homeric stature like Trotsky , and the cruel pedestrian despotism of a Ceauşescu ; heroic opposition to the Nazi assault , and hysteri- cally genocidal attacks on Soviet and Chinese society . It offers instances ...
... revolutionary figures of Homeric stature like Trotsky , and the cruel pedestrian despotism of a Ceauşescu ; heroic opposition to the Nazi assault , and hysteri- cally genocidal attacks on Soviet and Chinese society . It offers instances ...
第 2 頁
... revolutionary agent — someone who is able in certain social circumstances institutionally to combine ( with varying degrees of success for varying degrees of time ) orientations and commitments that until then were seen as mu- tally ...
... revolutionary agent — someone who is able in certain social circumstances institutionally to combine ( with varying degrees of success for varying degrees of time ) orientations and commitments that until then were seen as mu- tally ...
第 3 頁
... revolutionary heroism with an emphasis on the superordinate impersonal authority of the Party , itself the central heroic actor and focus of emotional commitment . The manner and extent to which these different elements have been ...
... revolutionary heroism with an emphasis on the superordinate impersonal authority of the Party , itself the central heroic actor and focus of emotional commitment . The manner and extent to which these different elements have been ...
第 4 頁
... revolutionary commitments of a Leninist party can be seen as comparable — and at certain points identical — to a war orientation . However , the Party's equally strong commitments to industrialization , scientific development , and ...
... revolutionary commitments of a Leninist party can be seen as comparable — and at certain points identical — to a war orientation . However , the Party's equally strong commitments to industrialization , scientific development , and ...
第 5 頁
... revolutionary strategist , and per- sonality . " The Bolshevik colony in Geneva " proved to be a group of people who regarded themselves as Lenin's disciples and were worshipful in their attitude towards him . Although he was then only ...
... revolutionary strategist , and per- sonality . " The Bolshevik colony in Geneva " proved to be a group of people who regarded themselves as Lenin's disciples and were worshipful in their attitude towards him . Although he was then only ...
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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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