Summary of Stephen Holmes & Ivan Krastev's The Light That Failed

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 In 1990, John Feffer, a 26-year-old American, spent several months traveling Eastern Europe in hopes of understanding its post-communist future. He was fascinated and puzzled by the contradictions he encountered. The capitalist future had arrived, but its benefits and burdens were unevenly distributed. #2 After 1989, the global spread of democracy was envisioned as a version of the fairy tale of Sleeping Beaut