EAN: 9780141988108

THE LIGHT THAT FAILED - IVAN KRASTEV STEPHEN HO...

*Winner of the 2020 Lionel Gelber Prize*FINANCIAL TIMES  ECONOMIST  PROSPECT and EVENING
STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK A landmark book that completely transforms our understanding of
the crisis of liberalism  from two pre-eminent intellectuals Why did the West  after winning
the Cold War  lose its political balance? 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 in the East but also back in the
heartland of the West. In this brilliant work of political psychology  Ivan Krastev and Stephen
Holmes argue that the supposed end of history turned out to be only the beginning of an Age of
Imitation. 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 Orbán'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 our Age of Imitation.

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