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review February 2025

Left decline and rising populism in Eastern Europe

Review by George Kordas
Four men, standing in front of a press wall. On the top of the wall on the left hand side there is a castle resembling Bratislava castle made up of EU flags. Next to the flag castle Bratislava Summit 16 September 2016 Is written. Donald Tusk on the left is standing next to Viktor Orban, Robert Fico and Jean-Claude Juncker.
In When the Left Moves Right (Oxford University Press, 2024), Maria Snegovaya asks why previously centre-left democratic parties have suffered electoral defeats, whilst right-wing populist parties have soared in post-Communist Central Europe. George Kordas writes that the book is an important tool for researchers and students and offers a valuable historical framework of the Visegrád countries.
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