The Political Economy of Eastern Europe 30 years into the ‘Transition’: New Left Perspectives from the Region

Foreword
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
	Building Dialogue
	The Structure of the Book
	References
Life in Transition and in Crisis. The Political Autobiography of a Generation
	The Failure of 1989
	Three Overlapping Crises
	Conclusion
	References
When Did a Transition to Capitalism Start in Serbia?
	Transition
	Socialism vs. Capitalism
	Contested Reproduction
	Yugoslav Socialism
	Market Reforms
	Conclusion
	References
The Restoration of Capitalism in Slovenia and Croatia
	The Formation and Demise of “really Existing Socialism” in Yugoslavia
	The Restoration of Capitalism in Croatia: The Transformation of “technocracy” into a National Capital Class Blocked by Bureaucracy
	References
Bosnia and Herzegovina After the Transition: Forever Postwar, Postsocialist and Peripheral?
	On Being Peripheral
	Approach and Methodological Notes
	From Socialist Yugoslavia to Privat(Ized) Bosnia
	Back to the Socialist Future?
	By Way of Conclusion
	References
Ukraine and the (Dis)integrating “Empire of Capital”
	Ukraine’s Capitalism With a Twist
	Survival Myths of Systemic Failure
	Social Forces and the Making of Ukraine’s Multilevel Crisis
	Hope, Farce, and Paving the Way of the “Collective President”
	References
Reconfiguring Regimes of Capitalist Integration: Hungary Since the 1970s
	The Crisis of the Post-1956 “Bridge-Model”
	Post-socialist Transition and the Neoliberal Accumulation Regime
	State-Class Reconfiguration as Part of Dependent Development After 2010
	Dependent Neomercantilism in Export Manufacturing
	Building Domestic Capital in Domestic Services
	Strengthening National Finance Capital and Reorganizing Financial Dependence
	Conclusion
	References
Czechia 30 years On: An Imperfect Oligarchy Without Emancipatory Alternative
	Periodizing Czech Capitalism
		First Interregnum (1990–1992) and Neoliberal Nationalist Rule (1992–1997)
		Second Interregnum (1997–2002) and Globalist Rule (2002–2010)
		Third Interregnum (2008–2013) and Open Oligarchic Rule (2013–)
	Hegemonic Discourses
		Market as Normalcy, Reparation, Efficiency and Justice: Neoliberalism and Anti-Communism
		“Civil Society” Elitism vs. Aggressive Majoritarianism: Discourses of Democracy
		Market, Corruption, Colony: Explaining Inferiority in the European Context
	In Place of Conclusion: Is There a Space for Any Left-Wing Alternative?
	References
Post-dissent and the New Right: Problems and Potential of post-Communist Dissent in Slovakia and Beyond
	The Phenomenon of Post-Dissent: Still Fighting the Last War
	Slovakia’s Left and Right in Transition: Crony Capitalism vs. The Race to the Bottom
	Dissent in Defense of Consensus
	From Engaged Citizens against the State to “Ordinary People” against Difference
	Towards a New Dissent?
	References
The Shame Movement in the Context of Georgia’s 30 years of Transformation: A Gramscian Analysis of Civil Society
	Civil Society in Post-Socialist Settings: How to Understand Civil Society as Part of a Gramscian Extended State?
	Civil Society in the Context of Georgia’s 30 years of Post-Socialist Transformation
	“Post-Revolutionary” Civil Society—Civil Society in Government
	Sirtskhvilia as a Party-Movement and a Part of an “Extended State”
	Conclusion
	References
The Roots of the Moralization of Politics in Post-1989 Bulgaria and What It Means for the Left
	Vicious Circle of Austerity and Poverty in Post-1989 Bulgaria
	The Ideology of Anti-corruption and the Post-political Condition
	From Economic Liberalization to the Moralization of Politics
	Challenges Before the New Left
	References
The New Protest Movements and the Left in Russia: To Overcome the Crisis of Hegemony
	Introduction
	The Russian Left
	The “Bolotnaya” Protests and Aftermath
	The Argument
	Before 2011: The Crisis of Hegemony
	The Eventful Protest
	Politics of Authenticity and the State’s Response
	The Struggle Continues
	The Current Crisis and the Navalny’s Movement
	What Is to Be Done
	References
Fear, Doubt and Money. War of Ideas, Production of Ignorance and Right-Wing Infrastructures of Knowledge and Hegemony in Poland
	Introduction: Pastor in the Borderlands and the World Youth Day
	“War on Gender” and the “latinization” of Poland
	Conservative Anti-international
	Weaponized Philanthropy: The “Kochtopus” and the Long Shadow of the Cold War
	In the Mist of Doubts, Might Is a Winner
	The Unfulfilled Promise of “Real Socialism”
	Let’s Talk About Logistics
	References
Conclusion: Seven Excursions into the Ideological Landscape of Eastern Europe
	Temporal Imagination
	Spatial Imagination
	Anti-political Imagination
	References
Index