Introduction: Ken Jowitt's Universe RUDRA SIL AND MARC MORJE HOWARD 3(16) I Leninism and Its Legacy 1 Lenin's Century: Bolshevism, Marxism, and the Russian Tradition VLADIMIR TISMANEANU 19(15) 2 The Leninist Legacy Revisited MARC MORJE HOWARD 34(13) 3 Transition to What? Legacies and Reform Trajectories after Communism GRIGORE POP-ELECHES 47(22) II Identity and Social Transformation in Eastern Europe and Russia 4 Institutions and the Development of Individualism: The Case of Western Poland after World War II TOMEK GRABOWSKI 69(20) 5 The Soviet Union as a Reign of Virtue: Aristotelian and Christian Influences on Modern Russian Ethics and Politics OLEG KHARKHORDIN 89(18) 6 Slobodan Milogevi6: Charismatic Leader or Plebiscitarian Demagogue? VELJKO VUJACIC 107(20) 7 Social Dimensions of Collectivization: Fomenting Class Struggle in Transylvania GAIL KLIGMAN AND KATHERINE VERDERY 127(22) III Political, Economic, and Social Change: Beyond Eastern Europe 8 Stages of Development in Authoritarian Regimes BARBARA GEDDES 149(22) 9 From Neotraditionalism to Neofamilism: Responses to "National Dependency" in Newly Industrialized Countries YONG-CHOOL HA 171(17) 10 Leninism, Developmental Stages, and Transformation: Understanding Social and Institutional Change in Contemporary China CALVIN CHEN 188(21) IV Methodological Orientations 11 Weber, Jowitt, and the Dilemma of Social Science Prediction STEPHEN E. HANSON 209(16) 12 The Evolving Significance of Leninism in Comparative Historical Analysis: Theorizing the General and the Particular RUDRA SIL 225(24) V The Big Picture 13 Conjuring Up a Battlefront in the War on Terror STEPHEN HOLMES 249(20) 14 The Power of Imaginative Analogy: Communism, Faith, and Leadership DANIEL CHIROT 269(6) Select Bibliography 275(16) Contributors 291(4) Index 295