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Examines Central European communism, why it failed, and what has come since. Moving loosely chronologically from 1989 to the present, each chapter focuses on topics of importance from the fields of comparative politics and sociology, to feminist and gender studies.

Table of Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. Revolutions: The fall of communism as witnessed from a beer barrel and beyond
  • Chapter 2. Communism: The political importance of telling a good story
  • Chapter 3: Neoliberalism: Why BMWs don’t just randomly explode!
  • Chapter 4. Nationalism: Liberalism’s evil twin screws up the Enlightenment
  • Chapter 5: Ethnic Conflict: The breakup of Yugoslavia through a feminist lens
  • Chapter 6. “Transitology”: How I joined the global conspiracy against Slovakia
  • Chapter 7. Humanitarian Intervention: Liberalism weaponized in the Western Balkans
  • Chapter 8. International Relations: The West Gets Cocky
  • Chapter 9. Homophobia: Intersectionality and the political uses of fear
  • Chapter 10. Populism: Austerity, fear and loathing on Central Europe’s periphery
  • Chapter 11. Illiberal Democracy: The Political Economy of Hungary’s Liberal Unraveling
  • Liberalism’s fragile dream

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        Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
        Publication Date: 30/10/2021
        ISBN13: 9780472055043, 978-0472055043
        ISBN10: 0472055046
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        Description

        Book Synopsis
        Examines Central European communism, why it failed, and what has come since. Moving loosely chronologically from 1989 to the present, each chapter focuses on topics of importance from the fields of comparative politics and sociology, to feminist and gender studies.

        Table of Contents
        • Preface and Acknowledgments
        • Chapter 1. Revolutions: The fall of communism as witnessed from a beer barrel and beyond
        • Chapter 2. Communism: The political importance of telling a good story
        • Chapter 3: Neoliberalism: Why BMWs don’t just randomly explode!
        • Chapter 4. Nationalism: Liberalism’s evil twin screws up the Enlightenment
        • Chapter 5: Ethnic Conflict: The breakup of Yugoslavia through a feminist lens
        • Chapter 6. “Transitology”: How I joined the global conspiracy against Slovakia
        • Chapter 7. Humanitarian Intervention: Liberalism weaponized in the Western Balkans
        • Chapter 8. International Relations: The West Gets Cocky
        • Chapter 9. Homophobia: Intersectionality and the political uses of fear
        • Chapter 10. Populism: Austerity, fear and loathing on Central Europe’s periphery
        • Chapter 11. Illiberal Democracy: The Political Economy of Hungary’s Liberal Unraveling
        • Liberalism’s fragile dream

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