{"id":16962,"date":"2024-05-13T09:47:30","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T09:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/?p=16962"},"modified":"2024-05-13T10:56:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T10:56:00","slug":"david-ost-undoing-legal-authoritarianism-the-case-of-poland-and-its-relevance-elsewhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/ellisoncenter\/news\/david-ost-undoing-legal-authoritarianism-the-case-of-poland-and-its-relevance-elsewhere\/","title":{"rendered":"David Ost | Undoing Legal Authoritarianism: The Case of Poland, and its Relevance Elsewhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fellisoncenteruw%2Fchristopher-miller-the-war-came-to-us-life-and-death-in-ukraine%3Fsi%3Dc27ad5bc9d844eac8bd6b8fafcd4222b%26amp%3Butm_source%3Dclipboard%26amp%3Butm_medium%3Dtext%26amp%3Butm_campaign%3Dsocial_sharing&color=%23ff5500&amp%3Bauto_play=false&amp%3Bhide_related=false&amp%3Bshow_comments=true&amp%3Bshow_user=true&amp%3Bshow_reposts=false&amp%3Bshow_teaser=true&amp%3Bshow_artwork=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>David Ost is a professor of Politics at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York. He has written widely on eastern Europe, with a focus on Poland, labor, class, democracy, and the radical right. His books include\u00a0Solidarity and the Politics of Anti-Politics,\u00a0Workers After Workers\u2019 States,\u00a0The Defeat of Solidarity, and the edited collection \u201cClass After Communism.\u201d Recent articles include \u201cWhy (Which) Workers Often Oppose (Which) Democracy?\u201d, \u201cREN PILL Politics in Poland,\u201d and \u201cThe Surprising Right-Wing Relevance of the Russian Revolution.\u201d He is currently finishing a book titled \u201cRed Pill Politics: Fascism and Right-Wing Populism.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Ost is a professor of Politics at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York. He has written widely on eastern Europe, with a focus on Poland, labor, class, democracy, and the radical right. 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