Ideology and Social Protests in Eastern Europe

This book argues that the recent political mobilizations in Eastern Europe have been underpinned by a class struggle between a more conservative and a more radical line of contention.

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Veronika Stoyanova is an Associate Lecturer in the Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research at the University of Kent in Canterbury

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CONTENTS

1. Introduction: studying popular mobilisation in the post-socialist context

2. Anti-populism and its critics: the battle over the 'liberal consensus'

3. Classificatory struggles and civil society through the lens of Gramsci's theory of hegemony and Bloch's theory of ideology and utopia

4. The concept of civil society during the 'transition': its road to hegemony and its utopian surplus

5. Against the liberal consensus: a civil society of the people

6. In defence of the liberal consensus: civil society of the middle class

7. Hegemonic class struggles over the liberal consensus in the post-socialist context