Alina Polyakova

is a PhD candidate in sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Articles

Let's stop blaming the economy

Radical right parties in central eastern Europe

Alina Polyakova questions the assumption that the rise of the radical right in Central and Eastern Europe is rooted in economic conditions. Looking instead at the consequences of post-socialist civil society for liberal democracy is far more likely to render a more realistic picture, she writes.

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