With the collapse of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe
between 1989 and 1991, right-wing extremist parties have emerged
and claimed a prominence that they have not enjoyed since the early
1940s. The Radical Right in Central and Eastern Europe Since 1989
examines the activity of these groups in the region stretching from
Germany to Russia. Few, if any, comparable books offer readers an
overview of how the radical right is faring in Germany, Poland,
Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria,
Ukraine, and Russia. Among the countries reviewed, only Slovakia
has right-wing extremists taking their seats as members of the
ruling coalition. This volume shows that radical right activities
can have pernicious effects even if right-wing extremists do not
themselves succeed in obtaining seats in government. As the cases
of Germany and Russia show, right-wing extremist parties may be
capable of distorting the political agenda and forcing the
government to take up issues that it might otherwise have ignored
or treated differently. The Croatian and Serbian cases show that
right-wing extremist parties may figure as part of a broader
political milieu when their ideas are already accepted by the
political mainstream.
This volume is designed to give students, scholars, journalists,
and other interested readers a useful introduction to the prospects
of the far right in these post-communist countries. The
contributors are John D. Bell, Frank Cibulka, Ivan Grdesić, Roger
Griffin, Stephen Hanson, Laszlo Karsai, Julie Mostov, David Ost,
Ognjen Pribićević, Sabrinia P. Ramet, Rudolf M. Rizman, Michael
Shafir, Roman Solchanyk, and Christopher Williams.
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