After the Fall

George Katsiaficas is Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, Massachusetts and editor of the journal New PoliticalScience. He is also the co-editor of Liberation,Imagination, and the Black Panther Party (Routledge, 2000).

"After the Fall is without question the best collection of essays about the turbulent multiple crises humanity is facing since the end of the Cold War. Every essay in the book has a grasp on present reality without sentimentality. Yet the essays build from the radical project that hope for a better future is at the center of human progress and reconstruction. The authors will give many people, including those at universities, a chance to rethink what they are learning and where they might go politically and personally." -- Marcus Raskin, Co-founder and Distinguished Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies and Professor, Public Policy Program, George Washington University"For those who have placed their hope in the 'future of freedom' and search for progressive opportunities in the aftershocks of the 1989 earthquake, pick up After theFall. There you will find a compilation of important voices on the left offering precious reflections on the last pulsating decade of the twentieth century." -- Micheline Ishay, Associate Professor, Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver

• Introduction by George Katsiaficas I. Historical Interventions Chapter One: 1989 Revisited, Daniel Singer Chapter Two: How We Ended the Cold War, John Tirmane II. Analytical Accounts Chapter Three: 1989: Continuation of 1968, Giovanni Arrighi, Terrence Hopkins and Immanuel Wallerstein Chapter Four: The Road to Consumption, Boris Kagarlitsky III. Retrospective Views Chapter Five: Germany: A Decade of Hope and Despair, Hanna Behrend Chapter Six: China: Ten Years After the Tiananmen Crackdown, Ngo Vihn Long Chapter Seven: How Adjaria Did Not Become Another Bosnia. Historical Determination, Human Agency, And Accident In The Study Of Nationalist Conflict, Georgi M. Derluguian IV. Ethical Imperatives Chapter Eight: Of Means and Ends: 1989 as Ethico-Political Imperative, Manfred B. Steger Chapter Nine: The Sickness Unto Death: International Communism Before the Deluge, Stephen Eric Bronner V. Political Responses Chapter Ten: Rollback: The Aftermath of the Overthrow of Communism, Michael Parenti Chapter Eleven: Cold War Triumphalism: A Reply to John Gaddis, Irene Gendzier VI. The Future of Socialism After Communism Chapter Twelve: Transcending Pessism: Rekindling Socialist Imagination, Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin Chapter Thirteen: Postcommunist Democratic Socialism, Nancy Fraser Contributors Index