Description
This book explores the emergence, and in Poland, Hungary, and Russia the coming to power, of politicians and political parties rejecting the consensus around market reforms, democratization, and rule of law that has characterized moves toward an "open society" from the 1990s. It discusses how over the last decade these political actors, together with various think tanks, intellectual circles, and religious actors, have increasingly presented themselves as "conservatives," and outlines how these actors are developing a new local brand of conservatism as a full-fledged ideology that counters the perceived liberal overemphasis on individual rights and freedom, and differs from the ideology of the established, present-day conservative parties of Western Europe. Overall, the book argues that the "renaissance of conservatism" in these countries represents variations on a new, illiberal conservatism that aims to re-establish a strong state sovereignty defining and pursuing a national path of development.
Table of Contents
1 Introduction: toward a new illiberal conservatism in Russia and East Central Europe
Katharina Bluhm and Mihai Varga
Part I. Genealogies
2 Russia窶冱 conservative counter-movement: genesis, actors, and core concepts
Katharina Bluhm
3 The universal and the particular in Russian conservatism
Paul Robinson
4 Against "post-communism": the conservative dawn in Hungary
Aron Buzogány and Mihai Varga
5 New conservatism in Poland: the discourse coalition around Law and Justice
Ewa Dﾄ�browska
6 The national conservative parties in Poland and Hungary and their core supporters compared: values and socio-structural background
Jochen Roose and Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski
7 "Conservative modernization" and the rise of Law and Justice in Poland
Krzysztof Jasiecki
Part II. Translations
8 The limits of conservative influence on economic policy in Russia
Irina Busygina and Mikhail Filippov
9 The "Budapest窶�Warsaw Express": conservatism and the diffusion of economic policies in Poland and Hungary
Ewa Dﾄ�browska, Aron Buzogány, and Mihai Varga
10 Gender in the resurgent Polish conservatism
Agnieszka Wierzcholska
11 "Traditional values" unleashed: the ultraconservative influence on Russian family policy
Katharina Bluhm and Martin Brand
12 Religious conservatism in post-Soviet Russia and its relation to politics: empirical findings from ethnographic fieldwork
Tobias Köllner
13 Ready for diffusion? Russia窶冱 "cultural turn" and the post-Soviet space
Sebastian Schiek and Azam Isabaev
14 The emergence and propagation of new conservatism in post-communist countries: systematization and outlook
Katharina Bluhm and Mihai Varga
