A Century of Populist Demagogues

Eighteen European Portraits, 1918-2018
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-963-386-333-6
Verlag: Central European University Press

Buch, Englisch, 347 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 505 g

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berend, Ivan T.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgement
Introduction: Who are the populist demagogues, and how can they attain political power?

PART I. Interwar populist—communist and fascist—demagogues
Chapter 1. A Hungarian communist demagogue: Béla Kun
Chapter 2. A Hungarian fascist demagogue: Gyula Gömbös
Chapter 3. A Romanian fascist demagogue: Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
Chapter 4. A fascistoid Austrian demagogue: Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg

PART II. Turn of the millennium populist demagogues
Chapter 5. An Austrian far-right demagogue: Jörg Haider
Chapter 6. A Romanian communist demagogue: Nicolae Ceausescu
Chapter 7. Two French demagogues: Le Diable and La Fille du Diable, Jean-Marie and Marine Le Pen
Chapter 8. An entertaining but harmful buffoon-type demagogue: the Italian Silvio Berlusconi
Chapter 9. Three nationalist demagogues in Yugoslavia and a devastating civil war
Chapter 10. Two British Brexit fighters: Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage
Chapter 11. A “freedom fighter” against the European Union: the Dutch Geert Wilders
Chapter 12. Three demagogues exploit the difficult transformation: Viktor Orbán in Hungary and the Kaczynski brothers of Poland

Conclusion

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Berend, Ivan T.
Ivan T. Berend is Distinguished Research Professor at the History Department of the University of California Los Angeles.