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There are many and different types of racism in contemporary Russia: institutional racism, far-right racism, everyday (bytovoi) racism, and a fourth kind to which this essay will be devoted, the racism of the liberal intelligentsia. Russian liberal media's reaction to the BLM protests of 2020 has offered abundant material for the study of its social base, main tropes, and underlying logic. This article attempts to historicize it, locating its origins in the anti-Soviet pro-western dissidence of the stagnation era and illustrating its workings through some statements made by Joseph Brodsky and his milieu. Furthermore, the article identifies the intersection of two main ideas from which this racism emerges. In the first place, this is Cold-War rejection of real or perceived Soviet alliances with newly decolonized countries of Africa and Asia or with African Americans during the Civil Rights era. In the second place, this is dissident civilizational hierarchies that placed the west at the top and saw the east or the south as a backward space best avoided.

Die russische Intelligentsia war ursprünglich ein entscheidender Faktor für die Emanzipation und Politisierung der Massen. Der Autor verzeichnet eine historische Verschiebung: Auf unterschiedlichen Wegen haben der Stalinismus und der Menschenrechtsdiskurs zum Bruch des "historischen Blocks" zwischen Intelligentsia und Volk geführt, mit der Folge, dass die intellektuelle Elite in Russland heute ein stark ausgeprägtes Ressentiment gegen das Volk hegt und das Volk verstummt ist. Die Folgen lassen sich in der Sprache der Intelligentsia finden, in den Praktiken ihrer Selbstdarstellung, in ihrer geringen Empfänglichkeit für die Probleme sozialer Ungerechtigkeit und in ihrem Streben nach "Klassenmacht". (ICB2)

AbstractThis essay seeks to reconstruct the history of the first Tashkent Festival of Cinemas of Asia and Africa (1968). It offers an account of the festival as a highly heterogeneous and productive site for better understanding the complex relationship between the Soviet bloc and the Third World in the crucial moment between the victory of post-colonial independence movement and the end of the Cold War.