Decline and Discontent: Communism and the West Today

by Paul Hollander

In this lucid and thought-provoking volume, Paul Hollander juxtaposes and examines two apparently unrelated phenomena and their possible connections: the sudden and unexpected collapse of Communist systems during the late 1980s and the less spectacular erosion of social cohesion and cultural values in the West and primarily in the United States since the late 1960s.The first part of the book is devoted to the failures of communism, or of "existing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 088738434X
• ISBN13: 9780887384349
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.