{"product_id":"the-light-that-failed-why-the-west-is-losing-the-fight-for-democracy-9781643133690","title":"The Light That Failed: Why the West Is Losing the Fight for Democracy","description":"\u003cbr\u003eIn 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 there but also back in the heartland of the West.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this brilliant work of political history, Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes argue that the supposed end of Communism turned out to be only the beginning of the age of the autocrat. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough 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 Orba n's Hungary into models for the United States.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten by two pre-eminent intellectuals bridging the East\/West divide, \u003ci\u003eThe Light That Failed\u003c\/i\u003e is a landmark book that sheds light on the extraordinary history of the fall of the Western ideal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Pegasus Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/07\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781643133690\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/02\/2019\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Stephen Holmes, Ivan Krastev","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36664341987484,"sku":"9781643133690","price":22.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_03a77f2c-2ad6-4e5d-998f-08405e7ab304.jpg?v=1603906401","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-light-that-failed-why-the-west-is-losing-the-fight-for-democracy-9781643133690","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}