New World Disorder (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Ken Jowitt
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Current history
- Time of Work: 1917-1991
- Setting: The Soviet Union, China, Romania, and other Eastern European states
- Principal Characters: Francis Fukuyama, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin), Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Deng Xiaoping, Nicolae Ceausescu
- Genres: Nonfiction, Current affairs, History
- Subjects: Dictators, Communism or communists, Twentieth century, Leadership, Political science, Presidents, Eastern Europe or eastern Europeans, China or Chinese people, Soviet Union or Soviets
- Locales: Europe, Soviet Union, China, Romania
In the period from 1989 to 1991, the dramatic collapse of Communist regimes in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union reduced the once-mighty Communist bloc to the four states of China, Vietnam, North Korea, and Cuba. By the end of 1992, this history-making upheaval had just begun to receive serious treatment at the hands of scholars. Ken Jowitt does not satisfy the general reader’s need for a clear, readable survey of Communism as a historical phenomenon; he does, however, provide valuable insights into the nature of Communism and the fatal flaws that finally brought it down. He also...
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