INTRODUCTION Who are the populist demagogues, and how can they attain political power?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Preface and acknowledgement vii
4. INTRODUCTION Who are the populist demagogues, and how can they attain political power? 1
5. PART 1 Interwar populist —communist and fascist— demagogues
6. CHAPTER 1 A Hungarian communist demagogue: Béla Kun 39
7. CHAPTER 2 A Hungarian fascist demagogue: Gyula Gömbös 57
8. CHAPTER 3 A Romanian fascist demagogue: Corneliu Zelea Codreanu 77
9. CHAPTER 4 A fascistoid Austrian demagogue: Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg 93
10. PART 2 Turn of the millennium populist demagogues
11. CHAPTER 5 An Austrian far-right demagogue, Jörg Haider 107
12. CHAPTER 6 A Romanian communist demagogue: Nicolae Ceauşescu 123
13. CHAPTER 7 Two contemporary French demagogues: Le Diable and La Fille du Diable,1 Jean-Marie and Marine Le Pen 135
14. CHAPTER 8 An entertaining but harmful buffoontype demagogue: Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi 165
15. CHAPTER 9 Three nationalist demagogues in Yugoslavia and a devastating civil war 187
16. CHAPTER 10 Two British Brexit fighters: Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage 225
17. CHAPTER 11 A “freedom fighter” against the EU: the Dutch Geert Wilders 255
18. CHAPTER 12 Three demagogues exploit the difficult transformation: Viktor Orbán in Hungary and the Kaczyński brothers in Poland 275
19. Conclusion 309
20. Bibliography 331
21. Index 337