While the Latin American and North American origins of the current populist political trends are well-known, the relationship between the nineteenth century East European tradition of populism, its transformation in the twentieth century, and the current resurgence of populism in the region remains an understudied problem. While national populism is conventionally considered as a variety of authoritarian nationalism, its complex relationship with various ideological trends and social movements (including liberal, socialist, and anarchist) is often ignored. In this course we will explore the intellectual, social and cultural history of broadly defined nationalism and populism trying to locate them on the changing ideological map of Eastern Europe. By focusing on their East European roots, the course shall provide deeper understanding of mechanisms of populist and nationalist imagination and mass mobilization.
- Викладач: Sereda Ostap