The World After Communism - A Polemic For Our Times

Macmillan Papermac, 1995

The crisis of Communism at the end of the 1980s was hailed as a triumph for Western capitalism but Communism's collapse also marked the breakdown of superpower competition and cooperation that had defined a generation. Skidelsky analyses the economic and social crises that are emerging as a result of that breakdown, questions what kind of world order will follow and laments the influence of collectivism on the 20th century. The World After Communism is an important and timely book which lucidly reinvigorates our political and ethical language in order to meet the enormous challenge that is facing Europe in the 1990s and beyond...