Post-peasants of Eastern Europe

Juraj Buzalka

Chapter 3 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Economic Anthropology, 2025, pp 186-190 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The basis for a successful mobilization in post-socialist Eastern Europe consists of post-peasants. The parameters of post-peasant popular economy with the centrality of the house as a social and cultural unit created by state-socialism out of the predominantly self-subsistent peasants have been crucial for this mobilization. The post-peasants can be characterized as living between rural and urban worlds. Rustically romantic, but truly calculating followers of post-socialist capitalism, many travel abroad and make good use of life in a technologically and institutionally advanced world. The politics that shapes them against the individualist cosmopolitan elites is defined as post-peasant integralism. Its radical version, built upon the past violence and perceived injustices remembered by most inhabitants as happening in rural settings, developed into village fascism. Reactionary or progressive movements in the post-peasant setting thus must be explained via the historical transformations of populism, the only modern ideology originating in Eastern Europe.

Keywords: Post-peasants; Post-socialism; Integralism; Progressivism; Eastern Europe; Populism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035312566
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