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In Is Russia Fascist?, Marlene Laruelle argues that the charge of "fascism" has become a strategic narrative of the current world order. Vladimir Putin's regime has increasingly been accused of embracing fascism, supposedly evidenced by Russia's annexation of Crimea, its historical revisionism, attacks on liberal democratic values, and its support for far-right movements in Europe. But at the same time Russia has branded itself as the world's preeminent antifascist power because of its sacrifices during the Second World War while it has also emphasized how opponents to the Soviet Union in Central and Eastern Europe collaborated with Nazi Germany. Laruelle closely analyzes accusations of fascism toward Russia, soberly assessing both their origins and their accuracy. By labeling ideological opponents as fascist, regardless of their actual values or actions, geopolitical rivals are able to frame their own vision of the world and claim the moral high ground. Through a detailed examination of the Russian domestic scene and the Kremlin's foreign policy rationales, Laruelle disentangles the foundation for, meaning, and validity of accusations of fascism in and around Russia. Is Russia Fascist? shows that the efforts to label opponents as fascist is ultimately an attempt to determine the role of Russia in Europe's future.

This book, by one of the foremost authorities on the subject, explores the complex nature of Russian nationalism. It examines nationalism as a multilayered and multifaceted repertoire displayed by a myriad of actors. It considers nationalism as various concepts and ideas emphasizing Russia's distinctive national character, based on the country's geography, history, Orthodoxy, and Soviet technological advances. It analyzes the ideologies of Russia's ultra-nationalist and far-right groups, explores the use of nationalism in the conflict with Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea, and discusses how Putin's political opponents, including Alexei Navalny, make use of nationalism. Overall the book provides a rich analysis of a key force which is profoundly affecting political and societal developments both inside Russia and beyond.

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.

Since the rise of Putin, many have puzzled by the strange affinity of the far right in the West for today's authoritarian Russia. Entangled Far Rights explores the deep roots of this phenomena and reveals it to be a running thread through the entire history of the long 20th century and present regardless of the changing political character of Russia's regimes.

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.