Free to Hate: The Rise of the Right in Post-Communist Eastern Europe

Combining first-hand reporting, original documentation, and political analysis, Free to Hate was in 1993 the first major work in English to investigate the rise of the ultra-nationalist and radical right-wing movements that swept Central and Eastern Europe since 1989. In this powerful volume, Hockenos provides an account of the emergence and contemporary relevance of far right movements in countries including Germany, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, and Poland. In addition, he discusses neo-Nazi youth subculture, anti-Semitism, racism, minority issues, and the revision of history in the post-communist states.

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Hockenos provides the best English-language account of how a neofascist underground developed in the self-avowed antifascist state.

The Progressive

The rise of the far right in the former communist countries of Eastern Europe is a specter hanging over the continent. In this detailed, comprehensive and eminently readable book, Paul Hockenos turns the spotlight on an alarming legacy of communism.

Steve Platt, New Statesman

...Free to Hate is a detailed and well-reported survey of the emerging far right in Eastern Europe, a region where rabid demagogues have thrived since 1989. Hockenos has done a fine job of unravelling the right’s many strains, connecting the different movements to their historical, religious or cultural antecedents.

Toronto Globe and Mail

Paul Hockenos has written a pioneering and readable account of the rise of the extreme right in contemporary Eastern Europe.

Washington Post Book World

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