This book explores the emergence, and in Poland, Hungary, and Russia the coming to power, of politicians and political parties rejecting the consensus around market reforms, democratisation, and rule of law that has characterised moves towards an "open society" from the 1990s.

Katharina Bluhm is Professor of Sociology at the Freie Universität, Berlin.

Mihai Varga is Senior Researcher and Lecturer at the Institute for East European Studies at the Freie Universität, Berlin.

1 Introduction: toward a new illiberal conservatism in Russia and East Central Europe

Katharina Bluhm and Mihai Varga

Part I. Genealogies

2 Russia's conservative counter-movement: genesis, actors, and core concepts

Katharina Bluhm

3 The universal and the particular in Russian conservatism

Paul Robinson

4 Against "post-communism": the conservative dawn in Hungary

Aron Buzogány and Mihai Varga

5 New conservatism in Poland: the discourse coalition around Law and Justice

Ewa Dabrowska

6 The national conservative parties in Poland and Hungary and their core supporters compared: values and socio-structural background

Jochen Roose and Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski

7 "Conservative modernization" and the rise of Law and Justice in Poland

Krzysztof Jasiecki

Part II. Translations

8 The limits of conservative influence on economic policy in Russia

Irina Busygina and Mikhail Filippov

9 The "Budapest-Warsaw Express": conservatism and the diffusion of economic policies in Poland and Hungary

Ewa Dabrowska, Aron Buzogány, and Mihai Varga

10 Gender in the resurgent Polish conservatism

Agnieszka Wierzcholska

11 "Traditional values" unleashed: the ultraconservative influence on Russian family policy

Katharina Bluhm and Martin Brand

12 Religious conservatism in post-Soviet Russia and its relation to politics: empirical findings from ethnographic fieldwork

Tobias Köllner

13 Ready for diffusion? Russia's "cultural turn" and the post-Soviet space

Sebastian Schiek and Azam Isabaev

14 The emergence and propagation of new conservatism in post-communist countries: systematization and outlook

Katharina Bluhm and Mihai Varga