A review of Between East and West: Writings from “Kultura”, edited by Robert Kostrzewa.
About the Author
Stanisław Barańczak, who emigrated from Poland in 1981, is the Alfred Jurzykowski Professor of Polish Language and Literature at Harvard University and author of Breathing Under Water and Other East European Essays (1990).
The populist backlash against corruption, the CEE transition-era elites, and the liberal consensus has led to a democratic crisis, but does not portend systemic change.
Over the past decade, a series of "electoral revolutions" has taken place from Slovakia to Kyrgyzstan. Why has this path to democratization been especially common in the postcommunist region?
