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“I love this book because Krastev explains to us the way Eastern Europeans think and this is something we don’t naturally see. A lot of the resentment in Eastern Europe to liberalism has to do with resentment to the previous process of Russification of these countries and their desire to come back and gain their autonomy, to re-identify themselves as nations. He rightly says that the celebratory mood in the 90s that ‘We’re all liberals seeking national self-determination’ was a misguided view. Eastern Europeans said, ‘We’re going back to our roots and those roots were never liberal.” Read more...
Yael Tamir, Political Scientist
“It’s a fairly gloomy look at the whole thing, quite a Bulgarian look, if I may say so.” Read more...
Boris Starling, Thriller and Crime Writer
