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Record Nr.

UNINA9910554249103321

Autore

Laruelle Marlè€ne

Titolo

Is Russia fascist? : unraveling propaganda east and west / / Marlè€ne Laruelle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 2021

ISBN

1-5017-5414-9

1-5017-5415-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 256 pages)

Collana

Cornell scholarship online

Disciplina

320.5330947

Soggetti

Fascism - Russia (Federation)

Political culture - Russia (Federation)

Ideology - Russia (Federation)

Russia (Federation) - Foreign public opinion

Russia (Federation) Politics and government 1991-

Russia (Federation) Foreign relations Europe

Europe Foreign relations Russia (Federation)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Also issued in print: 2021.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Russia's "Fascism"or "Illiberalism"? -- The Soviet Legacy in Thinking about Fascism -- Anti-Fascism as the Renewed Social Consensus under Putin -- International Memory Wars : Equating the Soviet Union with Nazism -- The Putin Regime's Ideological Plurality -- Russia's Fascist Thinkers and Doers -- Russia's Honeymoon with the European Far Right -- Why the Russian Regime is not Fascist.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume argues that the charge of 'fascism' has become a strategic narrative of the current world order. Vladimir Putin's regime has increasingly been accused of embracing fascism, supposedly evidenced by Russia's annexation of Crimea, its historical revisionism, attacks on liberal democratic values, and its support for far-right movements in Europe. But at the same time Russia has branded itself as the world's preeminent antifascist power because of its sacrifices during the Second World War while it has also emphasized how opponents to the Soviet Union in Central and Eastern Europe collaborated with Nazi Germany. This book closely analyzes accusations of fascism toward



Russia, soberly assessing both their origins and their accuracy.