The World After Communism: A Polemic for Our Times

by RobertSkidelsky (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1995

  $3.87

  The crisis of Communism at the end of the 1980s was hailed as a triumph for Western capitalism. But Communism's subsequent collapse also marked the breakdown of the superpower competition and cooperation that had existed since the end of the Second World War. Robert Skidelsky analyses the economic and social crises that are emerging as a result of that breakdown and questions what kind of world order can now follow. The World after Communism is an important and timely book in which Skidelsky lucidly applies himself to reinvigorating our political, cultural and ethical language in order to meet the challenges facing Europe in the 1990s and beyond.

• Used

  Paperback
  1996

  $3.28

  There has been a breakdown of superpower competition and co-operation after the collapse of communsim. This work analyzes the economic and social crises that are emerging as a result of this breakdown and questions what kind of world order will follow. The author laments the influence of collectivism on the 20th century on both sides of the East-West divide, and attempts to rescue the reputation of John Maynard Keynes from his long association.