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 ... ... Ukraine), and as such has not been seen as a viable alternative government. In the one case where the radical left has governed (Moldova, from 2001-2009), its policies were scarcely identifiably ‘socialist’ (although there was a slowdown in privatization)....