Blue velvet: The rise and decline of the new Czech right

Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 28-54

  Hanley, Seán ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEADERSHIP; NATIONAL POLITICS; PARTY POLITICS; POLITICAL IDEOLOGY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; CZECH REPUBLIC; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 4444229583     PISSN: 13523279     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1352327042000260797     Document Type: Article

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