New books in the "Explorations of the Far Right" series

I am proud to announce the publication of two important books in the "Explorations of the Far Right" book series that I edit for ibidem Press: British Fascism: A Discourse-Historical Analysis by John E. Richardson and The Hungarian Far Right: Social Demand, Political Supply, and International Context by Péter Krekó and Attila Juhász.


John E. Richardson, British Fascism: A Discourse-Historical Analysis (Stuttgart: ibidem Press, 2017)

Fascism is inherently duplicitous, claiming one thing whilst being committed to something else. In examining this dishonesty, it is essential to distinguish between the surface arguments in fascist discourse and the underlying ideological commitments. Analyzing contemporary fascism is particularly difficult, since no fascist party admits to being fascist. Drawing on the critical insights of historical and linguistic research, this book offers an original and discerning approach to the critical analysis of fascism. It demonstrates that any understanding of the continuing popularity of fascist political ideology requires interdisciplinary analysis which exposes the multiple layers of meanings within fascist texts and the ways they relate to social and historic context. It is only through contextualization we can demonstrate that when fascists echo concepts and arguments from mainstream political discourse (e.g. 'British jobs for British workers') they are not being used in the same way.

Péter Krekó, Attila Juhász, The Hungarian Far Right: Social Demand, Political Supply, and International Context (Stuttgart: ibidem Press, 2017)

This timely book examines far-right politics in Hungary—but its relevance points much beyond Hungary. With its two main players, the radical right Jobbik and populist right Fidesz, it is at the same time an Eastern European, European, and global phenomenon. Jobbik and Fidesz, political parties with a populist, nativist, authoritarian approach, Eastern and pro-Russian orientation, and strong anti-Western stance, are on the one hand products of the problematic transformation period that is typical for post-communist countries. But they are products of a "populist zeitgeist" in the West as well, with declining trust in representative democratic and supranational institutions, politicians, experts, and the mainstream media. The rise of politicians such as Nigel Farage in the U.K., Marine Le Pen in France, Norbert Hofer in Austria, and, most notably, Donald Trump in the U.S. are clear indications of this trend. In this book, the story of Jobbik (and Fidesz), contemporary players of the Hungarian radical right scene, are not treated as separate case studies, but as representatives of broader international political trends. Far-right parties such as Jobbik (and increasingly Fidesz) are not pathologic and extraordinary, but exaggerated, seemingly pathological manifestations of normal, mainstream politics. The radical right is not the opposite and denial of the mainstream, but the sharp caricature of the changing national, and often international mainstream.

Russia and the Western Far Right: Tango Noir (pre-order)

My forthcoming book Russia and the Western Far Right: Tango Noir is now available for pre-order via Routledge or via several Amazon websites: France, Italy, Spain, UK, Canada, Japan, US, India.

Description:

The growing influence on the Western far right has been much discussed in the media recently. This book is the first detailed inquiry into what has been a neglected but critically important trend: the growing links between Russian actors and Western far right activists, publicists, ideologues, and politicians. The author uses a range of sources including interviews, video footage, leaked communications, official statements and press coverage in order to discuss both historical and contemporary Russia in terms of its relationship with the Western far right.

Initial contacts between Russian political actors and Western far right activists were established in the early 1990s, but these contacts were low profile. As Moscow has become more anti-Western, these contacts have become more intense and have operated at a higher level. The book shows that the Russian establishment was first interested in using the Western far right to legitimise Moscow’s politics and actions both domestically and internationally, but more recently Moscow has begun to support particular far right political forces to gain leverage on European politics and undermine the liberal-democratic consensus in the West.

Contributing to ongoing scholarly debates about Russia’s role in the world, its strategies aimed at securing legitimation of Putin’s regime both internationally and domestically, modern information warfare and propaganda, far right politics and activism in the West, this book draws on theories and methods from history, political science, area studies, and media studies and will be of interest to students, scholars, activists and practitioners in these areas.

A new book: Jean-Yves Camus, Nicolas Lebourg: Les Droites extrêmes en Europe

Jean-Yves Camus, Nicolas Lebourg, Les Droites extrêmes en Europe (Paris: Seuil, 2015), 320 pages.

A new book: Alina Polyakova - The Dark Side of European Integration

A new book published in the "Explorations of the Far Right" book series which I edit for ibidem-Verlag:



Alina Polyakova, The Dark Side of European Integration: Social Foundations and Cultural Determinants of the Rise of Radical Right Movements in Contemporary Europe

A new book: Eurasianism and the European Far Right

Lexington Books published a volume Eurasianism and the European Far Right: Reshaping the Europe-Russia Relationship edited by Marlène Laruelle, to which I contributed two chapters.

Review: Rafał Pankowski. The Populist Radical Right in Poland

Моя рецензия на книгу Рафаля Панковского о правом радикализме в Польше, опубликованная в журнале Laboratorium:

Rafał Pankowski. The Populist Radical Right in Poland: The Patriots. London: Routledge, 2010. 258 p. ISBN 978-0-4154-7358-8.

Эта книга – первое англоязычное исследование правого радикализма в Польше. Она написана польским политологом Рафалем Панковским – членом польской ассоциации «Nigdy więcej» («Никогда снова»), занимающейся мониторингом расизма и случаев дискриминации в Польше. Книга появилась в 2010 году – спустя три года после важного момента в истории современной Польши: в 2007 году распалась правительственная коалиция, созданная правоконсервативной партией «Право и справедливость» Ярослава Качиньского, правопопулистской «Самообороной» ныне покойного Анджея Леппера и крайне правой «Лигой польских семей» Романа Гертыха. Это было первое правительство в современной Польше, в которое входили крайне правые политики, что вызывало обеспокоенность в Евросоюзе.

Right-Wing Radicalism Today: Perspectives from Europe and the US

Right-Wing Radicalism Today: Perspectives from Europe and the US
Edited by Sabine von Mering, Timothy Wyman McCarty

To Be Published 24th May 2013 by Routledge – 210 pages

Series: Extremism and Democracy

Sabine von Mering is Associate Professor of German and Women’s and Gender Studies and Director of the Center for German and European Studies at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, US.

Timothy Wyman McCarty is Visiting Assistant Professor of Government at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, US. His research and teaching focuses on political theory, the history of ideas, and literature and politics.

This book highlights recent developments in the radical right providing comparative analysis of current extremist activity in Eastern and Western Europe and the United States. It reveals the growing amount of connections and continuities of rightwing movements and ideologies across national borders. Subjects covered include:

Bringing the Dark Past to Light: The Reception of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Europe

Bringing the Dark Past to Light: The Reception of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Europe
Edited and with an introduction by John-Paul Himka and Joanna Beata Michlic
July 2013
736 pp. 6 x 9 6 photographs
Hardcover 978-0-8032-2544-2
$57.50 Canadian/£34.00 UK

John-Paul Himka is a professor of history and classics at the University of Alberta. He is the author of Last Judgment Iconography in the Carpathians.

Joanna Beata Michlic is the director and founder of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Project on Families, Children, and the Holocaust at Brandeis University and is the author of Poland’s Threatening Other: The Image of the Jew from 1880 to the Present (Nebraska, 2006).

Right-Wing Populism in Europe: Politics and Discourse

Right-Wing Populism in Europe: Politics and Discourse
Editors: Ruth Wodak, Majid KhosraviNik, Brigitte Mral

Published: 28 March 2013
Extent: 368 p.
ISBN: 9781780933443
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic

Right-wing populist movements and related political parties are gaining ground in many EU member states. This unique, interdisciplinary book provides an overall picture of the dynamics and development of these parties across Europe and beyond. Combining theory with in-depth case studies, it offers a comparative analysis of the policies and rhetoric of existing and emerging parties including the British BNP, the Hungarian Jobbik and the Danish Folkeparti.

The case studies qualitatively and quantitatively analyse right-wing populist groups in the following countries: Austria, Germany, Britain, France, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Italy, Netherlands, Hungary, Belgium, Ukraine, Estonia, and Latvia, with one essay exclusively focused on the US.

This timely and socially relevant collection will be essential reading for scholars, students and practitioners wanting to understand the recent rise of populist right wing parties at local, countrywide and regional levels in Europe, and beyond.

Modernism and Eugenics

The first volume in the recently established book series "Modernism and..." (edited by Roger Griffin) is out -

Marius Turda, Modernism and Eugenics (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)



Is the nation an 'imagined community' centered on culture or rather a biological community determined by heredity? Modernism and Eugenics examines this question from a bifocal perspective. On the one hand, it looks at technologies through which the individual body was re-defined eugenically by a diverse range of European scientists and politicians between 1870 and 1940; on the other, it illuminates how the national community was represented by eugenic discourses that strove to battle a perceived process of cultural decay and biological degeneration. In the wake of a renewed interest in the history of science and fascism, Modernism and Eugenics treats the history of eugenics not as distorted version of crude social Darwinism that found its culmination in the Nazi policies of genocide but as an integral part of European modernity, one in which the state and the individual embarked on an unprecedented quest to renew an idealized national community.

Library updated (34 vols)

Have updated my library with the following e-books -

1. Walter L. Adamson, Avant-garde Florence: From Modernism to Fascism (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993).
2. Franklin Hugh Adler, Italian Industrialists from Liberalism to Fascism: The Political Development of the Industrial Bourgeoisie, 1906-34 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
3. Catherine Andreyev, Vlasov and the Russian Liberation Movement: Soviet Reality and Emigré Theories (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987).
4. Peter Baehr, Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism, and the Social Sciences (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010).
5. William T. Cavanaugh, The Myth of Religious Violence: Secular Ideology and the Roots of Modern Conflict (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009).
6. Rita Chin, Heide Fehrenbach, Geoff Eley, Atina Grossmann, After the Nazi Racial State: Difference and Democracy in Germany and Europe (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009).
7. Oleg V. Chlevnjuk, Master of the House: Stalin and His Inner Circle (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009).
8. Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi, Fascist Spectacle: The Aesthetics of Power in Mussolini's Italy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997).
9. Abby L. Ferber (ed.), Home-Grown Hate: Gender and Organized Racism (New York: Routledge, 2004).
10. A. James Gregor, The Search for Neofascism: The Use and Abuse of Social Science (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006).
11. Wolf Gruner, Jewish Forced Labor Under the Nazis: Economic Needs and Racial Aims, 1938–1944 (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006).
12. Peter Hayes, From Cooperation to Complicity: Degussa in the Third Reich (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
13. Jeffrey Herf, Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture, and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984).
14. Douglas R. Holmes, Integral Europe: Fast-Capitalism, Multiculturalism, Neofascism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000).
15. Constantin Iordachi (ed.), Comparative Fascist Studies: New Perspectives (London and New York: Routledge, 2010).
16. Jennifer M. Kapczynski, The German Patient: Crisis and Recovery in Postwar Culture (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008).
17. Zig Layton-Henry, Czarina Wilpert, Challenging Racism in Britain and Germany (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).
18. Derek S. Linton, 'Who Has the Youth, Has the Future': The Campaign to Save Young Workers in Imperial Germany (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991).
19. Peter Longerich, Holocaust: The Nazi Persecution and Murder of the Jews (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010).
20. Timothy W. Mason, Nazism, Fascism and the Working Class. Ed. by Jane Caplan (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
21. Steven Merritt Miner, Stalin's Holy War: Religion, Nationalism, and Alliance Politics, 1941-1945 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003).
22. Stanley G. Payne, David Jan Sorkin, John S. Tortorice (eds), What History Tells: George L. Mosse and the Culture of Modern Europe (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004).
23. Nicos Poulantzas, The Poulantzas Reader: Marxism, Law, and the State. Ed. by James Martin (London: Verso, 2008).
24. Dagmar Reese, Growing up Female in Nazi Germany (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006).
25. Martin Reisigl, Ruth Wodak, Discourse and Discrimination: Rhetorics of Racism and Antisemitism (London and New York: Routledge , 2001).
26. Aviel Roshwald, Ethnic Nationalism and the Fall of Empires: Central Europe, Russia and the Middle East, 1914–1923 (London and New York: Routledge, 2001).
27. Gavin Schaffer, Racial Science and British Society, 1930-62 (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).
28. George Talbot, Censorship in Fascist Italy, 1922-43 (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
29. Susan Tegel, Nazis and the Cinema (London and New York: Hambledon Continuum, 2007).
30. Paul Weindling (ed.), International Health Organisations and Movements, 1918-1939 (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
31. Andrew Zimmerman, Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001).
32. Joshua D. Zimmerman (ed.), Jews in Italy under Fascist and Nazi Rule, 1922-1945 (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
33. Geneviève Zubrzycki, The Crosses of Auschwitz: Nationalism and Religion in Post-Communist Poland (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006).
34. Efraim Zuroff, Operation Last Chance: One Man's Quest to Bring Nazi Criminals to Justice (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).

Orlando Figes

A tragic story of the British "Sovietologist" Orlando Figes revealed responsible for posting anonymous reviews on Amazon denigrating the books of other British historians -

- Donal O'Sullivan, Anonymous Slander on Amazon, Soviet Style
- Robert Service, The Shame of Orlando Figes
- Rachel Polonsky, How I Rumbled the Lying Professor

Library updated (25 vols)

Have updated my library with the following e-books -

1. Omer Bartov (ed.), The Holocaust: Origins, Implementation, Aftermath (London and New York: Routledge, 2000).
2. Sidney M. Bolkosky, Searching for Meaning in the Holocaust (Westport: Greenwood Press, 2002).
3. Christopher R. Browning, The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939 - March 1942 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004).
4. Yitzhak M. Brudny, Reinventing Russia: Russian Nationalism and the Soviet State, 1953-1991 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998).
5. Leonidas Donskis, Troubled Identity and the Modern World (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
6. Peter J.S. Duncan, Russian Messianism: Third Rome, Revolution, Communism and after (London: Routledge, 2000).
7. Peter Fritzsche, Life and Death in the Third Reich (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008).
8. Anna Von der Goltz, Hindenburg: Power, Myth, and the Rise of the Nazis (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009).
9. Victoria de Grazia, The Culture of Consent: Mass Organization of Leisure in Fascist Italy (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981).
10. Susanne Heim, Carola Sachse, Mark Walker, The Kaiser Wilhelm Society under National Socialism (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009).
11. Tim Kirk, Nazism and the Working Class in Austria: Industrial Unrest and Political Dissent in the 'National Community' (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
12. MacGregor Knox, Mussolini Unleashed 1939-1941: Politics and Strategy in Fascist Italy's Last War (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982).
13. Jürgen Matthäus (ed.), Approaching an Auschwitz Survivor: Holocaust Testimony and its Transformations (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009).
14. Kevin O'Connor, Intellectuals and Apparatchiks: Russian Nationalism and the Gorbachev Revolution (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2006).
15. Susanna Rabow-Edling, Slavophile Thought and the Politics of Cultural Nationalism (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006).
16. Eric G. Reiche, The Development of the SA in Nürnberg 1922-1934 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1986).
17. Evelyn A. Schlatter, Aryan Cowboys: White Supremacists and the Search for a New Frontier, 1970-2000 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006).
18. Dmitry Shlapentokh (ed.), Russia between East and West: Scholarly Debates on Eurasianism (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2007).
19. Frank M. Snowden, The Fascist Revolution in Tuscany, 1919-1922 (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989).
20. Michael Sutton, Nationalism, Positivism and Catholicism: The Politics of Charles Maurras and French Catholics, 1890-1914 (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982).
21. Nebojša Vladisavljević, Serbia's Antibureaucratic Revolution: Miloševic, the Fall of Communism and Nationalist Mobilization (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).
22. Richard Weikart, Hitler's Ethic: The Nazi Pursuit of Evolutionary Progress (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
23. Eric D. Weitz, A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003).
24. Daniel Woodley, Fascism and Political Theory: Critical Perspectives on Fascist Ideology (London and New York: Routledge, 2010).
25. Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston, Searching for Cioran (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009).

Library updated (21 vols)

Have just updated my library with the following e-books -

1. Shelley Baranowski, The Sanctity of Rural Life: Nobility, Protestantism, and Nazism in Weimar Prussia (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1995).
2. John Arch Getty, Oleg V. Naumov, The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999).
3. A. James Gregor, Marxism, Fascism, and Totalitarianism: Chapters in the Intellectual History of Radicalism (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009).
4. Roger Griffin, Robert Mallett and John Tortorice (eds), The Sacred in Twentieth-Century Politics. Essays in Honour of Professor Stanley G. Payne (Houndmills and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).
5. Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Revolution, 1789-1848 (New York: Vintage books, 1996 [1962]).
6. Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Empire, 1875-1914 (New York: Pantheon Books, 1987).
7. David L. Hoffmann (ed.), Stalinism: The Essential Readings (Malden: Blackwell, 2003).
8. Gordon J. Horwitz, Ghettostadt: Łódź and the Making of a Nazi City (Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008).
9. Walter Laqueur, The Dream that Failed: Reflections on the Soviet Union (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1994).
10. Thomas M. Lekan, Imagining the Nation in Nature: Landscape Preservation and German Identity, 1885-1945 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004).
11. Gregory M. Luebbert, Liberalism, Fascism, or Social Democracy: Social Classes and the Political Origins of Regimes in Interwar Europe (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991).
12. Dietrich Orlow, The Lure of Fascism in Western Europe: German Nazis, Dutch and French Fascists, 1933-1939 (Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2009).
13. Christopher Rickey, Revolutionary Saints: Heidegger, National Socialism, and Antinomian Politics (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002).
14. Chad Ross, Naked Germany: Health, Race and the Nation (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2005).
15. Henry Rousso (ed.), Stalinism and Nazism: History and Memory Compared (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004).
16. Joshua Rubenstein, Vladimir P. Naumov (eds), Stalin's Secret Pogrom: The Postwar Inquisition of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (New Haven: Yale University Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2001).
17. Lewis H. Siegelbaum, Andrei Sokolov (eds), Stalinism as a Way of Life: A Narrative in Documents (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000).
18. Hans D. Sluga, Heidegger's Crisis: Philosophy and Politics in Nazi Germany (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993).
19. Robert Wohl, The Generation of 1914 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1979).
20. Richard Wolin, The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism: From Nietzsche to Postmodernism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004).
21. Oliver Zimmer, Nationalism in Europe, 1890-1940 (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).

Online Ukrainian libraries

For those of you who are interested in Ukraine, I would suggest several online libraries that feature both Ukrainian books and academic works on Ukrainian history, politics, society, religion, etc.

- Litera - Electronic Library (books in PDF and DJVU)
- Malorussian People's Historical Library (books in DJVU and PDF)
- Izbornyk (books in HTML)
- Library of the Institute of History of Ukraine (books in PDF)
- Electronic Library of Ukrainian Literature of the University of Toronto (books in PDF and HTML)

As some of the books are available in DJVU, you may need to download and install necessary plugins or software.

Although the libraries feature books in different languages, their interface is in Ukrainian or Russian for the most part. I assume this should not be a problem.

By the way, here is the archive of The Ukrainain Weekly. All the issues (1933-today) are available in PDF.