The Resource New world disorder : the Leninist extinction, Ken Jowitt
New world disorder : the Leninist extinction, Ken Jowitt
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- Summary
- 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 this spirit emphasizes how powerful the imperatives set by the West for the rest of the world are as sources of emulation, assimilation, rejection, and adaption; how unyielding premodern forms of identification, organization, and action are; how novel, powerful, and dangerous charisma as a mode of organized identity and action can be. 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, startlingly 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. The progression from essay to essay is lucid and coherent. Jowitt crafts stunningly apt metaphors to build his theme, drawing from such disparate sources as Weber, Marx, and Durkheim, on the one hand, and Shakespeare, the Bible, Walter Lippmann, Agatha Christie, William James, Tacitus, and Lewis Carroll, on the other
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (ix, 342 pages)
- Contents
-
- 5.
- "Moscow Centre"
- 6.
- Gorbachev: Bolshevik Or Menshevik?
- 7.
- The Leninist Extinction
- 8.
- The Leninist Legacy
- 9.
- A World Without Leninism
- 1.
- The Leninist Phenomenon
- 2.
- Political Culture in Leninist Regimes
- 3.
- Inclusion
- 4.
- Neotraditionalism
- Isbn
- 9780520913783
- Label
- New world disorder : the Leninist extinction
- Title
- New world disorder
- Title remainder
- the Leninist extinction
- Statement of responsibility
- Ken Jowitt
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 this spirit emphasizes how powerful the imperatives set by the West for the rest of the world are as sources of emulation, assimilation, rejection, and adaption; how unyielding premodern forms of identification, organization, and action are; how novel, powerful, and dangerous charisma as a mode of organized identity and action can be. 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, startlingly 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. The progression from essay to essay is lucid and coherent. Jowitt crafts stunningly apt metaphors to build his theme, drawing from such disparate sources as Weber, Marx, and Durkheim, on the one hand, and Shakespeare, the Bible, Walter Lippmann, Agatha Christie, William James, Tacitus, and Lewis Carroll, on the other
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Jowitt, Kenneth
- Dewey number
- 321.9/2
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- JC474
- LC item number
- .J69 1992eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Communist state
- Political culture
- Communism
- POLITICAL SCIENCE
- Communism
- Communist state
- Political culture
- Communist countries
- Label
- New world disorder : the Leninist extinction, Ken Jowitt
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- mixed
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- 5.
- "Moscow Centre"
- 6.
- Gorbachev: Bolshevik Or Menshevik?
- 7.
- The Leninist Extinction
- 8.
- The Leninist Legacy
- 9.
- A World Without Leninism
- 1.
- The Leninist Phenomenon
- 2.
- Political Culture in Leninist Regimes
- 3.
- Inclusion
- 4.
- Neotraditionalism
- Control code
- 42330800
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (ix, 342 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780520913783
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)42330800
- Label
- New world disorder : the Leninist extinction, Ken Jowitt
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- mixed
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- 5.
- "Moscow Centre"
- 6.
- Gorbachev: Bolshevik Or Menshevik?
- 7.
- The Leninist Extinction
- 8.
- The Leninist Legacy
- 9.
- A World Without Leninism
- 1.
- The Leninist Phenomenon
- 2.
- Political Culture in Leninist Regimes
- 3.
- Inclusion
- 4.
- Neotraditionalism
- Control code
- 42330800
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (ix, 342 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780520913783
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)42330800
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