The Right Wing in Postcommunist Europe
On this episode of American Prestige, Maria Snegovaya discusses the rise of the populist right in postcommunist Europe.
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The Right Wing in Postcommunist Europe | American Prestige
On this episode of American Prestige, Danny and Derek welcome to the pod Maria Sengovaya, senior fellow at the Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service, to talk about her book When Left Moves Right: The Decline of the Left and the Rise of the Populist Right in Postcommunist Europe. The explore what changed for the working class in Eastern Europe after the fall of communism, cases of the Left moving Right in Hungary and Poland, the role of austerity, the characterization of right wing parties vs. the reality, how left wing and centrist parties can offer meaningful alternatives to the Right, and more.
More of Maria’s work:
- “Populism and the Decline of Social Democracy” (with Sheri Berman), Journal of Democracy
- “How Ex-Communist Left Reformed and Lost,” West European Politics
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When Left Moves Right
On this episode of American Prestige, we’re joined by Maria Snegovaya, senior fellow at the Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service, to talk about her book When Left Moves Right: The Decline of the Left and the Rise of the Populist Right in Postcommunist Europe. We explore what changed for the working class in Eastern Europe after the fall of communism, the cases of the left moving right in Hungary and Poland, the role of austerity, the characterization of right-wing parties vs. the reality, how left-wing and centrist parties can offer meaningful alternatives to the right, and more.
More of Maria’s work:
- “Populism and the Decline of Social Democracy” (with Sheri Berman), Journal of Democracy
- “How Ex-Communist Left Reformed and Lost,” West European Politics
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The CIA’s Imperial History, Pt 1 w/ Hugh Wilford | American Prestige
Hugh Wilford, professor of history at California State University, Long Beach, is on the program for the first of two episodes on his book The CIA: An Imperial History. In this episode, we explore the historiography of intelligence today, how the CIA fits into an imperial lens of US history, whether the CIA is a liberal way of managing the world, the agency’s origins and shift from intelligence gathering to covert actions, gender relations among officers, their families, and agency partners, individuals like Kim Roosevelt, and whether CIA personnel truly believed in the threat of communism.
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