What’s Left of the Left in Central and Eastern Europe?

... government in the 1990s (such as the Hungarian Socialist Party) enthusiastically embraced what some commentators dub a ‘socialism of transition’: market liberalization and an orientation towards the EU and US that had little, if any, obvious ... ... Europe). Of the left-wing groups, the social democrats and Greens (in particular) tend to place a stronger normative accent on human rights issues, meaning that they are no less critical of Russia than many liberal parties (for example, it is the Greens ...