The "strike" of periphery: the twisted road from backwardness to political radicalism in Eastern Europe

Focusing on the way Easterners, both westernizers and traditionalists perceived the West and its values, and responded to its challenges (modernization, industrial revolution, urbanization, and national-state), the present paper aims to analyze and present in general outlines, the politics and ideology of "anti-", the Eastern "negations" of the West. Aware of the fact that many of those negative r…