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A landmark book that completely transforms our understanding of the problems of liberalism, from two pre-eminent intellectuals

Why did the Western world, after winning the Cold Battle, lose its political stability?

In the early 1990s, hopes for the eastward spread of liberal democracy were high. And yet the change of Eastern European countries gave rise to a bitter repudiation of liberalism itself, not merely there but also back the heartland from the West.

With this about The Light that Failed: A Reckoning brilliant work of political mindset, Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes argue that the expected end of history ended up being only the beginning of an Age of Imitation. Reckoning with the annals of the last thirty years, they display that the most powerful pressure behind the wave of populist xenophobia that started in Eastern Europe stems from resentment on the post-1989 vital to become Westernized.

Through this prism, the Trump trend represents an ironic fulfillment from the promise that this nations exiting from communist rule would come to resemble the United States. In a unusual twist, Trump provides raised Putin’s Russia and Orbán’s Hungary into models for the United States.

Compiled by two pre-eminent intellectuals bridging the East/Western divide, The Light that Failed is usually a landmark book that sheds light in the extraordinary history of our Age group of Imitation.