A Century of Populist Demagogues : : Eighteen European Portraits, 1918–2018 / / Ivan T. Berend.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Berend, Ivan T.,
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2022]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (347 p.)

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 differ...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• Preface and acknowledgement
• INTRODUCTION Who are the populist demagogues, and how can they attain political power?
• PART 1 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 2 Turn of the millennium populist demagogues
• CHAPTER 5 An Austrian far-right demagogue, Jörg Haider
• CHAPTER 6 A Romanian communist demagogue: Nicolae Ceauşescu
• CHAPTER 7 Two contemporary French demagogues: Le Diable and La Fille du Diable,1 Jean-Marie and Marine Le Pen
• CHAPTER 8 An entertaining but harmful buffoontype demagogue: Italy’s 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 EU: the Dutch Geert Wilders
• CHAPTER 12 Three demagogues exploit the difficult transformation: Viktor Orbán in Hungary and the Kaczyński brothers in Poland
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index