Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Exile Off Main Street

Glass Half Full

The Same River Twice

The Rise and Fall of Liberalism

Mind the Gap

The Trauma Known as Eastern Europe

A Tale of Two Eastern Europes

Part I: Stepping Backward

1. Pyramids of Sacrifice

The Ideology of Sacrifice

From First to Last

From Heroes to Victims

From the Margins to the Hinterlands

Self-Defeating Sacrifices

2. The Journey to Utopia

Transitology

The Diagram

Property

The Utopia of the West

Disappointments with Democracy

3. The Revenge of the Provinces

Eastern Europe B

Reforming Agriculture

4. The Faces of Illiberalism

The Nationalist Turn

The Populist Reformation

Trumpism in Poland

Hungary’s Illiberal Democracy

Going on the Attack

Scratching the Surface

5. Unexploded Ordnance

The Black Box

Puppet Masters?

The Lives of Others

History Commissions

The Tribunal

The Wages of Corruption

Interlude: Stepping Backward, Leaping Forward

Part II: Leaping Forward

6. Reinvention of Self

Creating a New Elite

Changing Things Locally

Switching Sides in Hungary

Rebranding a Country

7. The Talented Tenth

The Setback

The Apartheid System

The NGO Strategy

The Business Strategy

The Political Strategy

The Resistance Strategy

The Cultural Strategy

8. The New Dissidents

Krytyka Polityczna

The Feminization of Dissent

The Green Alternative

The New Politics of Self-Determination

The Rise of the Precariat

Exporting Dissent

9. The Next Generation

Young Republicans

Young Liberals

Young Radicals

10. Creating New Worlds

Squat Paradise

Artopia

Utopia Boxes

Conclusion: The Future of Illiberalism

Stepping Back and Leaping Forward

Serbia on the Edge

The Culture of Europe

The Impact of Globalization

The New Political Order

Looking Ahead

Notes

Index

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