Introduction: Russia and the Symbolic Landscape of Fascism
1. Russia's "Fascism" or "Illiberalism"?
2. The Soviet Legacy in Thinking about Fascism
3. Antifascism as the Renewed Social Consensus under Putin
4. International Memory Wars: Equating the Soviet Union with
Nazism
5. The Putin Regime's Ideological Plurality
6. Russia's Fascist Thinkers and Doers
7. Russia's Honeymoon with the European Far Right
8. Why the Russian Regime Is Not Fascist
Conclusion: Russia's Memory and the Future of Europe
Marlene Laruelle is Research Professor of International Affairs and Director of the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at The George Washington University. She works on Russia's ideological landscape at home and its export abroad.
Is Russia Fascist? is a work that offers a worthy contribution to
the ongoing conversation and debate about how to define
contemporary Russia and project where it is heading. Regardless of
what a reader might think about "illiberalism" as an answer,
Laruelle offers many good analytical insights. Her command of the
facts of recent Russian political history is solid and is to be
taken seriously.
*H-Net*
If you want to know what's been happening in the Russian far right,
this is undoubtedly the book for you. Is Russia Fascist? provides
excellent insights into the ideological state of play in modern
Russia. It also does a thorough job of demolishing the accusations
that Russia is a totalitarian state.
*Irrussianality*
In this book Marlene Laruelle not only seeks to answer the question
"Is Russia fascist?" but to provide a comprehensive analytical
framework for how to study the concept of fascism in the first
place. In doing so, she engages with scholarship in multiple fields
across the social sciences and in public discourse, which makes
this book of interest not only to political scientists but to
Russia watchers more generally.
*The Russian Review*
Is Russia Fascist? provides a clear, balanced assessment of
contemporary Russian politics, serving not only as a sensible
dissection of the status of fascism in Russia, but also as a guide
to that country's problematic political structures.
*Modern Language Review*
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