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The Rise of the Radical Right in Eastern Europe: Between Mainstreaming and Radicalization
- Georgetown Journal of International Affairs
- Georgetown University Press
- Volume 18, Number 1, Winter/Spring 2017
- pp. 27-35
- 10.1353/gia.2017.0005
- Article
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Abstract:
With the fall of the Iron Curtain and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the idea of a liberal, democratic Europe has expanded to include many formerly communist states. Yet the advent of democracy in East-Central Europe has not arrived without conflict, and fundamentally undemocratic tendencies have developed—namely, the rise of the radical right.