The Extreme Nationalist Threat in Russia: The Growing Influence of Western Rightist Ideas

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Routledge, 10 nov 2004 - 256 páginas
This book examines the nature of the extreme right in contemporary Russia, arguing in particular that, alongside a continuing tradition which emphasizes Russia's orthodox and traditional past, an increasingly important intellectual current is drawing on Western European neo-fascist ideas and adapting them to the Russian situation. This book examines this intellectual current within the context of increasing conservatism across Russia as a whole, showing how the new ideas have an impact right across the political spectrum, and assessing the threat posed by them and their proponents.
 

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Introduction
1
1 Modernisation and conservative backlash
15
2 Yeltsins Russia as a divided countrya seedbed of growing conservatism
36
movements and parties
62
4 The third way worldview in the Westernisation of Russia
87
5 Geopolitics as a conservative Weltanschauungthe clash of civilisations
95
6 Russian racism as a conservative Weltanschauung
128
towards a synthesis?
155
Conclusion
168
Notes
177
References
191
Author index
199
Subject index
207
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Thomas Parland received his doctorate in 1993 from the University of Helsinki, where he is a senior lecturer in political science at the University of Helsinki. He served at the Foreign Ministry of Finland as senior analyst on Russian affairs from 1995 to 2002. He specialises in Russian nationalism and has worked as a teacher of Russian, an interpreter and translator.

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