What made the West 'western'? And has Western civilisation found modernity but lost itself? This provocative and stimulating polemic argues that the modern world has destroyed western culture and civilisation without gaining anything in return, leaving contemporary man with a spiritual and cultural gap that no amount of material wealth can fill. This is a brave and challenging attempt to explain how and why this has happened and present a new concept of modern history for our complacent times.

How the West Was Lost

History

Alexander Boot

Americas

I.B.Tauris

Alexander Boot was born and grew up in the Soviet Union. Unable to conform to the warped requirements of Soviet socialism he became 'ne-nash'. a non-person. At the age of 25 the KGB came to visit, telling him to leave the country or face exile to Siberia. In this book Alexander describes by means of vivid anecdotes what is was like to grow up in Moscow under the Communists.The picture of poverty, oppression, violence, drunkeness, promiscuity, corruption and hopelessness he paints of Soviet life is as nasty and brutish as anything described by Dickens or drawn by Hogarth.

How the Future Worked: Russia Through He Eyes of a Young Non-person

Lighthouse Publishing Limited

Alexander Boot analyses the development of democracy from its classical roots to the present day. He charts the degeneration of democracy from being a system for the wielding of power to being the sole legitimisation of power. Treated as the sole source of power 'democracy' is an idol which should not be worshippped and those who do so can use it as an authoritarian, despotic and oppressive power.

Democracy as a Neocon Trick

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Books by Alexander Boot

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How the West Was Lost

How the Future Worked: Russia Through He Eyes of a Young Non-person

Democracy as a Neocon Trick