Focusing on Slovakia and East Central Europe, this book examines the cultural economy of protest and considers how the origins of political movements - progressive and reactionary - derive from resilient agrarian features.

Juraj Buzalka is Associate Professor at Institute of Social Anthropology, Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia.

1.The Cultural Economy of Protest; 2.The Post-Peasant House; 3. Ethnicity and the Domesticated Economy; 4. Workers and Transformation; 5.Culture of Life against the 'System of Lies'; 6. The Romantic Leadership; 7. Village Fascists and Progressive Populists; 8. Conclusion: Post-peasant Integralism and the Liberal Question