1st Edition
Militant Right-Wing Extremism in Putin’s Russia Legacies, Forms and Threats
Chapter 1 - Russia’s militant right. Notes on the historical, systemic and ideological conceptualisation of a specific political actor
Chapter 2 – The Russian militant right. A historical reflection on a specific political phenomenon
Chapter 3 – Militant right-wing extremism from the beginning of the Putin era to the war in Ukraine (2000-2018)
Chapter 4 – Right-wing extremist subculturesin the Russian Federation
Chapter 5 – Terrorism committed by militant Russian nationalists and violent racist gangs
Chapter 6 – Russian militant nationalism and the war in Donbass
Chapter 7 – Contemporary pro-Putin Russian militant nationalism in Russia and Ukraine
Chapter 8 – Contemporary anti-Putin militant right-wing nationalism
Chapter 9 – Russia’s support for militant nationalism abroad
Conclusion – The Russian militant right and Vladimir V. Putin’s conservative authoritarianism
Biography
Jan Holzer is a Political Scientist, Professor in the Department of Political Science and Principal Researcher in the International Institute of Political Science, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. His research interests include Modern Russian Politics; Comparative Area Studies, Political Systems/Regimes of the East European Countries and former Soviet Republics; Theory of Undemocratic and Hybrid Regimes and Theory of Democratization.
Martin Laryš is the Chairman and Co-founder of the Centre for Security Analyses and Prevention, Czech Republic, since 2012. He previously worked in business development of post-Soviet countries and as a foreign correspondent for a Czech newspaper in Moscow. He has published several articles on right-wing extremism and also on Russian politics and the politics of the former Soviet republics (particularly the Caucasus and the Ukraine). In 2009, he earned a degree in Political Science from the Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
Miroslav Mareš is a Political Scientist, Professor in the Department of Political Science and Principal Researcher in the International Institute of Political Science, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. He is a member of the International Association of Political Science, the European Expert Network on Terrorism Issues (chair of the subgroup on right-wing extremist, left-wing extremist and separatist violence in Europe) and the editorial board of the Radicalisation Awareness Network. His research interests include political extremism and terrorism as well as security policy in East Central Europe.
