1st Edition
A Century of Populist Demagogues Eighteen European Portraits, 1918-2018
By Ivan T. Berend
Copyright 2020
348 Pages
by
Central European University Press
The renowned historian Ivan T. Berend discusses populist demagoguery through the presentation of eighteen politicians from twelve European countries spanning World War I to the present. Berend defines demagoguery, reflects on its connections with populism, and examines the common features and differences in the demagogues’ programs and language. Mussolini and Hitler, the “model... Read more
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 StarhembergPART II. Turn of the millennium populist demagogues Chapter 5. An Austrian far-right demagogue: Jörg Haider Chapter 6. A Romanian communist demagogue: Nicolae Ceau?escu 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 Kaczy?ski brothers of Poland, Conclusion, Bibliography, Index.
Biography
Ivan T. Berend is Distinguished Research Professor at the History Department of the University of California Los Angeles.
