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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.

Cosmism: Russian messianism at a time of technological modernity -- Larger, higher, farther north: Russia's geographical metanarratives -- Alternate history and new chronology: rewriting Russia's past -- Beyond slavophilism: the rise of Aryanism and neo-paganism -- A textbook case of doctrinal entrepreneurship: Aleksandr Dugin -- Pamiat 2.0? The Izborskii Club, or the new conservative avant-garde -- Black shirts and white power: the changing faces of the far right -- Aleksei Navalny and the natsdem: a pro-Western nationalism? -- The three colors of Novorossiya, or the mythmaking of the Ukrainian War.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Entangled Far Rights: A Russian-European Intellectual Romance in the Twentieth Century (Marlene Laruelle) -- Part I. The Prerevolutionary Russian Right: A Fascism Avant La Lettre? -- Chapter 1: Late Imperial Slavophilism in the Context of Fascistogenic Ideas: A Case Study of Sergei Sharapov (Mikhail Suslov) -- Chapter 2: A Reactionary Utopia: Russian Black Hundreds from Autocracy to Fascism (Giovanni Savino) -- Part II. Interwar Mutual Discoveries: Eurasianism and the German Conservative Revolution -- Chapter 3: The "Third Continent" Meets the "Third Way": Eurasianism's Reading of Fascism (Marlene Laruelle) -- Chapter 4: A Failed Alliance: The Eurasianist Movement and the German Conservative Revolution in the Early 1930s (Martin Beisswenger) -- Part III. The War Experience: Collaborationism and the Soviet Union -- Chapter 5: The Soviet Union, Russia, and Their Peoples as Perceived by French Volunteers in German Uniform, 1941-1945 (Jean-Yves Camus) -- Chapter 6: The Russian National Socialist Viking Party in the Soviet Occupied Territories (Boris Kovalev) -- Part IV. The PostWar European Far Right's Draw for the Soviet East -- Chapter 7: Pro-Soviet Groups in the Cold War European Radical Right (Nicolas Lebourg, Jean-Yves Camus, and Jose Luis Rodriguez Jiménez) -- Chapter 8: Strasserism in Germany: In Search of an anti-Western Alliance with Stalin's USSR and Putin's Russia (Patrick Moreau) -- Part V. The Quest for Ideology in the Soviet Nomenklatura and Underground -- Chapter 9: Lev Gumilev and the European New Right (Mark Bassin) -- Chapter 10: The Yuzhinskii Circle: Rediscovering European Far Right Metaphysics in the Soviet Underground (Marlene Laruelle) -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Marlene Laruelle -- Part 1 -- What Does It Mean to Be a Muslim in Today's Central Asia? -- Chapter 1 -- How 'Muslim' are Central Asian Muslims? A Historical and Comparative Enquiry -- Galina Yemelianova -- Chapter 2 Junisbai, Junisbai, and Zhussupov -- Two Countries, Five Years: Islam in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan Through the Lens of Public Opinion Surveys -- Barbara Junisbai, Azamat Junisbai, and Baurzhan Zhussupov -- Chapter 3 Roʾi and Wainer -- Uzbekness and Islam: A Survey-based Analysis of Identity in Uzbekistan -- Yaacov Roʾi and Alon Wainer -- Part 2 -- Islam, Politics, and the State -- Chapter 4 -- The Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan: Episodes of Islamic Activism, Postconflict, Accommodation, and Political Marginalization -- Tim Epkenhans -- Chapter 5 -- Power, "Original" Islam, and the Reactivation of a Religious Utopia in Kara-Suu, Kyrgyzstan -- Aurélie Biard -- Chapter 6 -- Islamic Finance and the State in Central Asia -- Alexander Wolters -- Part 3 -- Islam in Evolving Societies and Identities -- Chapter 7 -- Visual Culture and Islam in Kazakhstan: The Case of Asyl Arna's Social Media -- Wendell Schwab -- Chapter 8 -- Playing Cosmopolitan: Muslim Self-fashioning, Migration, and (Be-)Longing in the Tajik Dubai Business Sector -- Manja Stephan-Emmrich -- Chapter 9 -- Informal Economies in the Post-Soviet Space: Post-Soviet Islam and Its Role in Ordering Entrepreneurship in Central Asia -- Rano Turaeva -- Part 4 -- Female Attire as a Public Debate -- Chapter 10 Nasritdinov and Esenamanova -- The War of Billboards: Hijab, Secularism, and Public Space in Bishkek -- Emil Nasritdinov and Nurgul Esenamanova -- Chapter 11 -- Hijab in a Changing Tajik Society -- Shahnoza Nozimova -- Chapter 12.

This collection provides a broad examination of contemporary Uzbekistan. The contributors analyze its geostrategic significance, its economic potential, and its demographic importance. This study also argues that the country's political, social, and cultural evolutions symbolize the transformations of the region as a whole

Introduction / Marlène Laruelle -- Part I. The legacy of the Soviet intervention -- Central Asian soldiers and the Soviet war in Afghanistan: an introduction / Artemy M. Kalinovsky -- A oral history of the Soviet-Afghan War: interviews with Central Asian Afgantsy / Marlène Laruelle, Botagoz Rakisheva, Gulden Ashkenova, and Artemy M. Kalinovsky -- Part II. Afghanistan's northern neighbors: perceptions and challenges -- Afghanistan's multicentered regional foreign policy / Antonio Giustozzi -- Russia's policy on Afghanistan / Ekaterina Stepanova -- Assessing Uzbekistan's and Tajikistan's Afghan policies: the impact of domestic drivers / Marlene Laruelle -- Insurgent activities at the Afghan-Turkmen and Afghan-Tajik borders / Bruce Pannier -- Part III. The Silk Road Initiative as a US project for Central Asia and Afghanistan -- Parsing mobilities in Central Eurasia / Alexander C. Diener -- The US Silk Road: geopolitical imaginary or the repackaging of strategic interests? / Marlène Laruelle -- The new Silk Road Initiative's questionable economic rationality / Sebastien Peyrouse and Gaël Raballand.

"The 2014 Ukrainian crisis has highlighted the pro-Russia stances of some European countries, such as Hungary and Greece, and of some European parties, mostly located at the far-right of the political spectrum. This book offers a unique insight on the main far-right actors and ideological trends that push, on both sides, for reshaping the Europe-Russia relations and for the emergence of a new pan-European illiberal ideology"--Provided by publisher

1. Russia's Arctic policy and the interplay of domestic and international -- 2. A territory or an identity? The Far North in Russia's statehood -- 3. Russia's spatial and demographic challenges -- 4. Climate change and its expected impact on Russia -- 5. The Russian stance on Arctic territorial conflicts -- 6. Projecting military power in the Arctic -- 7. Resource nationalism vs. patterns of cooperation -- 8. Unlocking the Arctic? Shipping along the Northern Sea Route.

Since the start of the 1990s, Central Asia has been the main purveyor of migrants in the post-Soviet space. These massive migrations impact issues of governance; patterns of social adaptation; individual and collective identity transformations; and gender relation in Central Asia.