Day 2: November 7
Presentations:
3/ Dimensions
of interpretations: Conflicting evaluations of the past 33 years
Compulsory reading:
Kornai,
János “Hungary’s U-Turn,” Capitalism and Society 2015: Vol. 10, Issue 1
Recommended reading:
Gábor
G. Fodor. The crisis of the regime change. Századvég Kiadó. 2009. pp. 119-140.
4/ Political
agency: Lech Walesa, Vaclav Havel, Victor Orbán…
Compulsory reading:
T
Berend, Ivan. Three demagogues exploit the difficult transformation: Viktor
Orbán in Hungary and the Kaczyński brothers in Poland. In: A Century of
Populist Demagogues. Eighteen European Portraits, 1918–2018. 2020. CEU Press
Recommended reading:
Schwartzburg,
Rosa and Imre Szijarto. When Orbán Was a Liberal, Jacobin. July 24, 2019. https://jacobin.com/2019/07/viktor-orban-fidesz-party-youth-activism