Volume 43, Number 3 · February 15, 1996
Austria & the Ghost of the New Europe
By Tony Judt
On Sunday December 17 two parliamentary elections were held in Europe. In Russia, the subcontinent's largest country, the Communists and their allies were victorious, emulating similar successes by Communist and ex-Communist parties in Hungary, Poland, and elsewhere in the former Eastern bloc. In Austria, one of Europe's smallest states, nothing much happened: the governing majority was once again returned to office, fighting off a challenge from right-wing opponents. But the circumstances of the Austrian election may prove the better, and also the more disturbing, guide to the European situation in coming years.
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