Description: Preface (Hilary Wainwright and Daniel Chavez). - Chapter 1. Introduction: East European new left perspectives on postsocialist transformation (Ágnes Gagyi). - Chapter 2. A clear cut? The restoration of capitalism and the contradictions of socialism in Yugoslavia (Vladimir Simovic, Tanja Vuksa). - Chapter 3. Capitalist restoration and development in Slovenia and Croatia (Marko Krzan, Dimitrije Birač). - Chapter 4. Ukraine and the (dis)integrating empire of capital (Yuliya Yurchenko). - Chapter 5. Reconfiguring regimes of capitalist integration: Hungary between 1970-2020 (Ágnes Gagyi, Tamás Gerőcs). - Chapter 6. Czechia 30 years on: The (im)perfect oligarchy and the misery of emancipatory alternative (Ondřej Slačálek, Daniel Sitera). - Chapter 7. Bosnia and Herzegovina after the transition: forever postwar, postsocialist and peripheral? (Danijela Majstorovic, Zoran Vučkovac). - Chapter 8. Life in transition and in crisis. The political autobiography of a generation (Dana Dömsödi, Florin Poenaru). - Chapter 9. Anti-corruption as the "New language" of the neoliberal order in Albania (Leart Kola). - Chapter 10. The political economy of the moralization of politics in post-1989 Bulgaria and the challenges for the left (Madlen Nikolova, Georgi Medarov). - Chapter 11. Making Sense of Georgia's Thirty Years of Neoliberal Transformation: a Gramscian Analysis of a Civil Society Movement (Nino Khelaia, Tornike Chivadze). - Chapter 12. Protest legitimacy and struggle for hegemony: Russian mobilizations between 2011-2014 (Oleg Zhouravlev). - Chapter 13. The dissident tradition of antipolitics and the new right. Problems and potential of post-communist dissent in Slovakia and beyond (Joseph Grim Feinberg). - Chapter 14. Fear, Doubt and Money: War of ideas, production of ignorance and right-wing infrastructures of hegemony in Poland (Andrzej W. Nowak). - Chapter 15. Conclusion: Ideologies in postsocialist transition 30 years on (Ondřej Slačálek)
Review Quotes: "The book provides an informative and reasoned compilation of local leftist academic theory, which could serve as a starting point for further discussion and investigation. I recommend that it be read especially by scholars of regional studies who wish to confront their sometimes rather standardised methods and presuppositions critically as well as by academics and activists interested in explanations of the emergence of right-wing political forces ... as well as in potential resources for promoting leftist approaches in the region." (Nina Krienke, Europe-Asia Studies, July 24, 2023)