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Explores the roots and growing power of fascism and the extreme right in Russia - a movement that the author asserts presents grave danger to the post-Cold War order. Walter Laqueur believes that Russia will soon have a right-wing government. Laqueur is the author of The Age of Terrorism.

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Library Journal Review

Laqueur is among the most prolific historians of modern Europe, and his book chronicles one of its most important movements: Russian nationalism. The author demonstrates a prodigious command of individuals and organizations in 20th - century Russia. This array ranges from conservative monarchists through rabid antiSemites; typically, Laqueur reveals the well-known group Pamyat (memory) as a ramshackle group of factious personalities. Yet too often throughout the book, Laqueur gives equal weight to the viewpoints supported by a few individuals as opposed to those shared by millions of Russians. However penetrating, Laqueur's concluding reflections do not help us understand the right within a broader political spectrum nor the durable popularity of Boris Yeltsin. Nevertheless, as accessible history, Laqueur's book can be confidently recommended to public and academic libraries.-- Zachary T. Irwin, Pennsylvania State Univ.-Erie (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Publishers Weekly Review

With the collapse of communism, Russia's rightwing extremists have made a comeback. Political analyst Laqueur ( The Age of Terrorism ) combed Russian journals, manifestos, booklets, leaflets and other sources to produce the first in-depth, comprehensive look at an alarming phenomenon. An essential source for Russia-watchers, his meticulous study profiles anti-Western ultra-nationalists, the openly fascistic and anti-Semitic Pamyat movement, fanatical sects within the Orthodox church, various monarchist factions and the reemerging Cossacks. These groups espouse militarism and a belief that Russia can function only if led by an authoritarian government. Laqueur documents the close collaboration of the Russian Orthodox church with the Communist Party leadership and the KGB. He traces the far right's origins to 19th-century Slavophiles and to the Black Hundred, a xenophobic movement which flourished between 1904 and 1917. His chilling report sounds a warning to the West. Photos. (June) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Booklist Review

If what Laqueur presents is true, 1917 merely put into suspended animation Russia's nationalist groups that are now breaking out in varied degrees of feverishness. The most rabid antecedents, of course, were the notorious Black Hundred's perpetration of pogroms in 1905-06. They're back as the Union of the Russian People, distributing forged trash like The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and publishing genuine trash written by Goebbels and Hitler. A bit less paranoid are the Slavophiles in the tradition of Dostoevsky and Solzhenitsyn, debating what Russia's world mission now is, and its obligations to compatriots suddenly stranded as minorities in other countries by the collapse of the empire. The Orthodox church seems to be the least bothered by Russia's post-Communist lot, but its credibility as a vessel of Christian ethics or Russian nationality is too compromised from decades of secret police penetration. These and other groups, from Cossacks to occultists, all have their newspapers and ideas for healing Russia's spirit--economics do not seem to concern them--which Laqueur has been assiduously reading. An interim report, Laqueur's summary reads like another extended bibliographical essay stemming from a career-long study of nationalism, but this may garner more than usual interest because of the overt anti-Semitic character of the Russian right. ~--Gilbert Taylor

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Walter Louis Laqueur was born in Breslau, Germany on May 26, 1921. At the age of 17, he fled just a few days before Kristallnacht and found his way to Palestine, where he was known as Ze'ev. He worked briefly on a kibbutz before moving to Jerusalem, where he spent a year enrolled in the Hebrew University and covered the Middle East as a journalist. In 1955, he moved to London, where he was a founder and editor of The Journal of Contemporary History and a founder of Survey, a foreign affairs journal. From 1965 to 1994 he was director of the Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, a leading archive in London.

He became a scholar of the Holocaust, the collapse of the Soviet Union, European decline, the Middle East conflict, and global terrorism. He wrote numerous books including A History of Zionism, A History of Terrorism, The Terrible Secret, Putinism: Russia and Its Future with the West, and The Future of Terrorism: ISIS, Al Qaeda, and the Alt-Right written with Christopher Wall. His memoirs included Thursday's Child Has Far to Go; Worlds Ago; Best of Times, Worst of Times; and Reflections of a Veteran Pessimist. He was also the editor of The Holocaust Encyclopedia. He died on September 30, 2018 at the age of 97.

(Bowker Author Biography)