Strange Rebels 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century by Caryl, Christian - 2014

New York: Basic Books. Very Good+. 2014. Reprint; First Printing. Paperback. Trade PB . Light shelf and edge wear. ; Nice tight flat copy, no names or marks inside, appears unread. Cover artwork by Sean McCabe. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; 432 pages; Few moments in history have seen as many seismic transformations as 1979. That single year marked the emergence of revolutionary Islam as a global political force, the beginning of market revolutions in China and Britain that would radically alter the international economy, and the first stirrings of the resistance movements in Eastern Europe and Afghanistan that ultimately led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Strange Rebels is a ground-breaking account of how these upheavals marked a startling conservative challenge to communist and socialist systems around the globe, giving birth to our modern age in the process. .