Entangled Far Rights
Author | : Marlene Laruelle |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2018-11-06 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780822986348 |
ISBN-13 | : 0822986345 |
Rating | : 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Since the Ukrainian crisis in 2014, Russia’s support to the European far right—and to a variety of populist leaders more globally—has become a cornerstone of the West’s perception of Moscow as a “spoiler” on the international scene. The fact that Russia’s most fervent supporters are now to be found on the right of the ideological spectrum should not be a surprise. The European far right has always had Russophile tendencies, but these were obscured during the Cold War, when rightist politics were most of all anti-Communist. Entangled Far Rights traces the “intellectual romance” that existed between European far right groups and their Russian-Soviet counterparts during the twentieth century and accounts for their recent re-emergence.