The Light That Failed: Why the West Is Losing the Fight for Democracy by Ivan Krastev, Stephen Holmes

The Light That Failed: Why the West Is Losing the Fight for Democracy

Ivan Krastev, Stephen Holmes

256 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history politics reflective slow-paced

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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 there but also back in the heartland of the...

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