Radykalizm polityczny jako reakcja na własne państwo. Europa Środkowa i Wschodnia w XXI wieku
Political Radicalism as a Reaction to One’s Own Country. Central and Eastern Europe in the 21st Century

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is not so much to convince readers about the significance and validity of the presented opinions on contemporary radicalisms in Europe, especially its central and eastern part, but rather to trigger a discussion and ask several questions that flow from the observation of this phenomenon. The biggest doubts arise in connection with the question about the role of a contemporary European state in the creation and stimulation or facilitation of the emergence and functioning of radical attitudes and movements on its territory. To what extent is this phenomenon a natural outcome of a variety of views characteristic of democratic (or democratizing) states, and to what extent is it an unwanted and increasingly difficult to control byproduct of the contemporary politics of European countries? Focus on a selected group of European states, the central-eastern states in this case, allows to somewhat simplify the complex issue, analyzed by the most prominent scholars, of European citizens seeking the significance of their nation and country and its identity.

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