Thomas Parland

The Extreme Nationalist Threat in Russia (eBook, ePUB)

The Growing Influence of Western Rightist Ideas

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134296767
• Artikelnr.: 47884648

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Modernization and Conservative Backlash 2. Yeltsin's Russia
as a Divided Country - A seedbed of growing conservatism 3. Actors of the
Conservative Resistance: Movements and Parties 4. The 'Third Way' Worldview
in the Westernising of Russia 5. Geopolitics as a Conservative
Weltanschauung - The clash of civilizations 6. Russian Racism as a
Conservative Weltanschauung 7. Putin's Russia: Towards a Synthesis?
Conclusions