Black Hundred: The Rise of the Extreme Right in Russia
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This study explores the roots and growing power of fascism and the extreme right in Russia - a movement that the author asserts presents grave danger to the post-Cold War order. Walter Laqueur believes that Russia will soon have a right-wing government. Not just a matter of domestic concern, this will have a direct impact on the outside world. Russian foreign policy will become supernationalist, disarmament will cease, conflict with Russia and the former republics of the USSR will grow. The fate of Russian Jews and other minorities will be imperiled. From the origins of the far right in the 19th century to the openly fascistic and anti-semitic Pamyat today, Laqueur provides the historical background, and portrays the current personalities of the "patriotic forces" - representatives of the Cossacks, the monarchists, the fascists and anti-semites of various persuasions, most of them virtually unknown in the West - who will play key roles in the years to come. Laqueur is the author of "Weimar, Europe Before Hitler" and "The Age of Terrorism".
Author: Walter Laqueur (Chair, Center for Strategic International Studies, Washington DC, USA)
Format: Hardback, 288 pages, 155mm x 235mm
Published: 1993, HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States
Genre: Political Ideologies & Parties
This study explores the roots and growing power of fascism and the extreme right in Russia - a movement that the author asserts presents grave danger to the post-Cold War order. Walter Laqueur believes that Russia will soon have a right-wing government. Not just a matter of domestic concern, this will have a direct impact on the outside world. Russian foreign policy will become supernationalist, disarmament will cease, conflict with Russia and the former republics of the USSR will grow. The fate of Russian Jews and other minorities will be imperiled. From the origins of the far right in the 19th century to the openly fascistic and anti-semitic Pamyat today, Laqueur provides the historical background, and portrays the current personalities of the "patriotic forces" - representatives of the Cossacks, the monarchists, the fascists and anti-semites of various persuasions, most of them virtually unknown in the West - who will play key roles in the years to come. Laqueur is the author of "Weimar, Europe Before Hitler" and "The Age of Terrorism".