Fascism, liberalism, and social democracy in Central Europe

Even ten years after the founding elections of the democratic trasitions in Central and Eastern Europe, the political and ideological cleavages of earliger eras endure. Fifty years of communist rule and ten years of democracy have not erased the political significance of earlier social movements associated with the ideologies of liberalism, socialsim and fascism. These historical referents shape the contemporeary political landscape in every country that was once part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. From Haider´s Communists in Hugary, the cases in this volume examine both the historical and contemporary dimensions of these ideological streams.