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Entangled Far Rights : A Russian-European Intellectual Romance in the Twentieth Century

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Entangled Far Rights : A Russian-European Intellectual Romance in the Twentieth Century

Entangled Far Rights :
A Russian-European Intellectual Romance in the Twentieth Century

by Marlene Laruelle
English | 2018 | ISBN: 0822965658 | 305 Pages | PDF | 17 MB

This volume investigates how diverse elements of what can be defined as the far-right repertoire have traveled between the European and the Soviet/Russian spaces. This approach can sometimes be perilous due to the semantic confusion around the term “fascism”. If the scholarly community has reached partial agreement on how to define it, the use and abuse of the term in the public space, the lack of terminological consistency, its name-calling value, and countries varying sensitivities based on their own memories of the Second World War make it difficult to study the term’s transnational aspect, as well as its persistence throughout the twentieth century. In the United States, Europe and Russia, these terms are used in the political and intellectual arenas as epithets to identify and denounce enemies. The derogatory content is so high than the notion of fascism has become an insulting label that sometimes bears no connection to the actual ideological positions of the individuals being accused. In Soviet and post-Soviet culture, the semantic space of fascism is even more complex. The consensus around the Soviet Union’s defeat of fascism in Europe remains the critical driver of Russia’s social cohesion even today, and the mere suggestion that some Soviet citizens or contemporary political groups might refer to fascism positively is offensive to the majority of public opinion.

This volume has to face another significant methodological problem, namely its location at the intersection of diverse disciplinary approaches. It finds its inspiration in the trend of building a European transnational history that keeps the focus on pan-European phenomena, cultural transfers, and mutual borrowings beyond the borders of the nation-state. It also hopes to rehabilitate Russian intellectual history as an integral part of the European history of ideas and to confirm how much Russia has contributed to Europe’s modern history, both as an object of debates and as an actor itself.