The Political Economy of Eastern Europe 30 years into the ‘Transition’

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Agnes Gagyi

   Pages 1-15

3. Life in Transition and in Crisis. The Political Autobiography of a Generation

   • Dana Domşodi, Florin Poenaru

   Pages 17-40

4. When Did a Transition to Capitalism Start in Serbia?

   • Vladimir Simović, Tanja Vukša

   Pages 41-64

5. The Restoration of Capitalism in Slovenia and Croatia

   • Marko Kržan, Dimitrije Birač

   Pages 65-80

6. Bosnia and Herzegovina After the Transition: Forever Postwar, Postsocialist and Peripheral?

   • Danijela Majstorović, Zoran Vučkovac

   Pages 81-96

7. Ukraine and the (Dis)integrating “Empire of Capital”

   • Yuliya Yurchenko

   Pages 97-113

8. Reconfiguring Regimes of Capitalist Integration: Hungary Since the 1970s

   • Agnes Gagyi, Tamás Gerőcs

   Pages 115-131

9. Czechia 30 years On: An Imperfect Oligarchy Without Emancipatory Alternative

   • Ondřej Slačálek, Daniel Šitera

   Pages 133-150

10. Post-dissent and the New Right: Problems and Potential of post-Communist Dissent in Slovakia and Beyond

    • Joseph Grim Feinberg

    Pages 151-167

11. The Shame Movement in the Context of Georgia’s 30 years of Transformation: A Gramscian Analysis of Civil Society

    • Nino Khelaia, Tornike Chivadze

    Pages 169-185

12. The Roots of the Moralization of Politics in Post-1989 Bulgaria and What It Means for the Left

    • Georgi Medarov

    Pages 187-203

13. The New Protest Movements and the Left in Russia: To Overcome the Crisis of Hegemony

    • Oleg Zhuravlev

    Pages 205-222

14. Fear, Doubt and Money. War of Ideas, Production of Ignorance and Right-Wing Infrastructures of Knowledge and Hegemony in Poland

    • Andrzej W. Nowak

    Pages 223-249

15. Conclusion: Seven Excursions into the Ideological Landscape of Eastern Europe

    • Ondřej Slačálek

    Pages 251-266

16. Back Matter

    Pages 267-270

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• Postsocialist Transition
• Postsocialist Neoliberalism
• New Authoritarianism
• Eastern Europe
• Postsocialist Left
• Postsocialist Social Movements

“The book provides an informative and reasoned compilation of local leftist academic theory, which could serve as a starting point for further discussion and investigation. I recommend that it be read especially by scholars of regional studies who wish to confront their sometimes rather standardised methods and presuppositions critically as well as by academics and activists interested in explanations of the emergence of right-wing political forces … as well as in potential resources for promoting leftist approaches in the region.” (Nina Krienke, Europe-Asia Studies, July 24, 2023)

• University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden

  Agnes Gagyi

• Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

  Ondřej Slačálek

Agnes Gagyi is a sociologist. She works on East European politics and social movements from the perspective of the region’s long-term world-economic and geopolitical integration. Presently she is employed as a researcher on East European social movements at the Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg. She is a founding member of the regional English language forum LeftEast, and of the Working Group for Public Sociology “Helyzet” in Budapest. Besides scholarly publications on East European new left movements, she has been actively involved in organizing meetings and discussions across East European new left scenes. The present book project grew out from regional meetings she organized with the Transnational Institute as part of the New Politics project.

Ondřej Slačálek is a political scientist and journalist, he focuses on East European politics, nationalist discourses and social movements from various analytical perspectives. He works at the Department of Political Science, Charles University, Prague. Besides articles in scholarly journals (Patterns of Prejudice, Slavic Review) on nationalism, social movements and musical subcultures of youth, he is a regular collaborator of Czech new left journal A2/A2larm, he was regular collaborator of left-wing daily Právo and editor of streetpaper Nový Prostor and active participant in international debates on post-socialism (Eurozine, LeftEast).

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