Novak Bjelić, Kazivanja o Trepči, 1303-2018

Abstract

bán’s governance actually reinforced neoliberalism and produced an idiosyncratic variety. In describing the differences between Fidesz’ neoliberalism and the neoliberalism pursued by his predecessors, Fabry argues that by combining some of neoliberalism’s central tenets with authoritarian and ethnicist politics, Orbán created what he himself refers to as an ‘illiberal democracy’. Fabry’s book, alongside a small but growing body of Marxist, neo-Gramscian, world system theory based social science approaches to the analysis of the political economies of the Central East European countries, makes a much needed contribution to the understanding of the consequences of postsocialist transformation. Although written to academic standards, it is not only the scholar who will benefit from this book. Its accessibility in terms of language, clarity, and length makes it a good choice for readers also outside academia who seek to understand the contradictory political and economic landscape of Hungary, as well as the other countries that once constituted the ‘Eastern bloc’.