17 July 2010

Fascist Radicalism and the New Media

Fascist Radicalism and the New Media
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17 September 2010, 9.00 a.m. — 5.30 p.m.

Symposium at the University of Northampton, Park Campus
Organised by the Radicalism and New Media group.

Featuring presentations from practitioners and authorities:

- East Midlands Community Contact Unit
- Serious Organised Crime Agency
- Durham Constabulary and NECTU

With panels of academic experts covering:

- New Media and Cyber-terrorism
- The Radical Right in Britain and Europe
- Roundtable Discussion on Fascism and the Internet

Registration fee £25 (£10 concessions)

This one-day symposium will bring together cutting-edge academic research on the contemporary far-right in the UK and Europe with a range of practitioners and enforcement bodies, including presentations by British police, local government and national officials. By focussing upon key areas related to new media technologies (the internet, personal communications devices, portable video, and so on) increasingly employed by the European far-right, from online radicalisation to cyber-terrorism, this event specifically seeks to forge a dialogue between front-line professionals and relevant academic experts. Presentations on security threats posed by extreme right-wing groups; the English Defence League’s use of Facebook; and the evolving far-right music scene, amongst others, will collectively address the relationship between new media technologies and the recent resurgence of the far-right across Britain and Europe. An introductory keynote lecture, concluding roundtable discussion and several panels over the course of the day will thus provide an up-to-date analysis on a fast-changing topic. Registration fee also includes lunch, coffee and conference pack.

For further details, or to register for this event, please contact:

Dr Mathew Feldman (matthew.feldman@northampton.ac.uk) or
Dr Paul Jackson (paul.jackson@northampton.ac.uk)

3 June 2010

Roger Griffin's new article translated into Russian

Have translated Roger Griffin's new article "Studying the European Extreme Right: From New Consensus to New Wave?" into Russian language. It's already the third Griffin's article I've translated into Russian so far. See also -

- От слизевиков к ризоме: введение в теорию группускулярной правой (From Slime Mould to Rhizome: An Introduction to the Groupuscular Right)

- Палингенетическое политическое сообщество: переосмысление легитимации тоталитарных режимов в межвоенной Европе (The Palingenetic Political Community: Rethinking the Legitimation of Totalitarian Regimes in Inter-war Europe)

And here is my translation of Griffin's Introduction to his Modernism and Fascism: The Sense of a Beginning under Mussolini and Hitler -

- Модернизм и фашизм. Введение: Aufbruch

21 May 2010

Jeremiah Duggan

Fortunately, the High Court of England and Wales ordered a second inquest into the death of Jeremiah Duggan, most likely killed by the fascist LaRouche movement in 2003.

More information on Jeremiah Duggan's death and the new inquest -

- Justice for Jeremiah campaign
- New inquest into Jeremiah Duggan's death in Germany (BBC News)
- Fascist cult 'may have killed Jewish student' by Murray Wardrop (Telegraph.co.uk)
- Victory for mother as inquest quashed by Jerome Taylor (The Independent)

25 April 2010

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

27 March 2010

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).

12 March 2010

Call for papers: Contemporary Russian Nationalism

"Contemporary Russian Nationalism, and Its Historical Roots"

A special issue of Forum für osteuropäische Ideen- und Zeitgeschichte [Forum for the Ideas and Contemporary History of Eastern Europe]

Deadline for submission of English or German papers: 1 August 2010.

ZIMOS, the Eichstaett Institute for Central and East European Studies in Upper Bavaria, invites English- and German-language research papers for a 2010 special issue of volume 14 of its biannual Germany-based print-journal Forum für osteuropäische Ideen- und Zeitgeschichte [Forum for the Ideas and Contemporary History of Eastern Europe]. Since 1997, the Forum has been published twice per year by Böhlau Press (Vienna, Cologne and Weimar).

Since 2004, it has been supplemented by ZIMOS's interdisciplinary Russian-language web journal Форум новейшей восточноевропейской истории и культуры [Forum for Contemporary East European History and Culture], where currently a similar Russian-language multi-issue project on post-Soviet anti-Westernism and its historical roots is being implemented.

We are looking for properly footnoted, scholarly researched, well-structured, and thoroughly edited English- or German-language investigations into the political ideas, world views, intellectual biographies, societal impact and various activities of contemporary Russian representatives of nationalism and their sources in the history of Russia and other countries.

Submitted texts should have a length of approximately 4,000 to 7,000 words, and be based on primary as well as secondary sources fully listed and properly described, in the footnotes. Papers may be submitted and will be printed in English or German. In the case the author submits not in her or his mother tongue, the text should be thoroughly copy-edited by a native speaker. The paper should not have been published before, in the language in which it is submitted to the Forum. If it has been published in another language before, authors are required to provide proof of reprint permission, by the copyright holder of the original version of the article. The editors of the Forum will not take responsibility for any violations of copyright.

Papers accepted content-wise for publication will only be published in case of a proper adaptation of its linguistic quality and formal style (footnotes, headings, references, citations etc.) to the standards of the Forum by the author/s, by 1 August 2010. Model articles showing the formal style required of the final editions of the papers to be prepared by the author/s may be found at the following sites:

Two German-language model articles:
http://www1.ku-eichstaett.de/ZIMOS/forum/docs/LuksChamber.htm
http://www1.ku-eichstaett.de/ZIMOS/forum/docs/Rybakov.html

An English-language model article:
http://www1.ku-eichstaett.de/ZIMOS/forum/docs/Motyl.html

All versions of the papers should be submitted as MS Word Documents using Word's footnote function.

So far, the following authors have agreed to submit texts with the following working titles:

Kaarina Aitamurto (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki), “Reviving the Native Faith: The Nationalism of Contemporary Slavic Paganism and Russian ‘Rodnoverie’”

Rosalind Marsh (University of Bath, UK), “The ‘New Political Novel’ by Right-Wing Writers in Post-Soviet Russia”

Denis Jdanoff (Berlin), "Die historischen Wurzeln des heutigen russischen Faschismus: Nationalsozialistische Gruppierungen der russischen Emigration im Dritten Reich"

Mikhail D. Suslov (European University Institute, Florence), “Between Nationalism and Imperialism: Pan-Slavism in Modern Russia”

Andreas Umland (The Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt), "Zhirinovskii as a Fascist: Palingenetic Ultra-Nationalism in Early Documents of the LDPR, 1992-1993"

In the future, it is planned to re-publish some of these papers within a collected volume of the book series “Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society”.

Please, submit your text as soon as possible, but not later than 1 August 2010 to:

andreas.umland[at]ku-eichstaett.de

or as a hard copy to:

Redaktion des Forums
ZIMOS
Ostenstr. 27
D-85072 Eichstaett
GERMANY

We look forward to receiving your proposal or paper!

Thank you.

The Forum's Editors
Prof. Leonid Luks and Dr. Andreas Umland
http://www1.ku-eichstaett.de/ZIMOS/Institut.html