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Record Nr.

UNINA9910974708303321

Autore

Colborne Michael

Titolo

From the Fires of War: Ukraine’s Azov Movement and the Global Far Right / / Michael Colborne, Bethan Johnson, John Richardson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hannover, : ibidem, 2022

ISBN

3-8382-7508-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (181 pages)

Collana

Analyzing Political Violence ; 2

Disciplina

320.533

Soggetti

Azov Movement

Far Right

Krieg

Nationalism

Nationalismus

Rechtsextremismus

Regiment Asow

Ukraine

War

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Roots of Azov -- Kurgans to Cossacks -- Ukrainian nationalism's slow birth -- The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and World War II -- Independent Ukraine -- Maidan -- War in Donbas and Azov's birth -- Chapter 2: Ideologies and Inspirations -- Ukrainian nationalism: domestic influences -- The Conservative Revolution and non-Nazi fascisms -- The Nouvelle Droite and metapolitics -- Neo-Nazism, violence and terror -- What do we call Azov? -- Azov's core sentiments -- Chapter 3: Azov in Action -- The Azov movement: an overview -- The core: Azov Regiment, National Corps and Centuria -- Official affiliates -- Unofficial affiliates -- Independent organizations -- Beyond Azov -- Chapter 4: In the Shadows -- Friends in high places -- Who funds Azov? -- Mysteries and suspicions -- Chapter 5: Mainstreams and Extremes -- Doublespeak -- Branding and visuals -- A wartime media climate -- The long march through institutions --



Chapter 6: International Ambitions -- Azov's first foreign friends -- Networks and 'new nationalism' -- Foreign fighters, facts and fiction -- Mission unaccomplished? -- Chapter 7: The Future of Azov -- Radicalization or entropy? -- Shifting the discourse -- Dismantling the structure -- Ukraine's international allies -- Final thoughts -- Acknowledgments -- References.

Sommario/riassunto

From its roots in revolution and war, Ukraine’s Azov movement has grown from a militia of fringe far-right figures and football hooligans fending off Russian-backed forces into a multipronged social movement that has become the envy of the global far right. In this first English-language book on the Azov movement, Michael Colborne explains how Azov came to be and continues to exploit Ukraine’s fractured social and political situation—including the only ongoing war on European soil – to build one of the most ambitious and dangerous far-right movements in the world.