The term ‘fascist’ has been misused by both the Soviet totalitarian system and Russian authoritarian nationalist militocracy to such an extent that it is detached from scholarly understanding and openly manipulated for political purposes. In Vladimir Putin’s Russia World the term ‘fascist’ is manipulated even further by political technology and massive state control of television that spews Ukrainophobic and anti-Western xenophobic propaganda. The article investigates a hitherto under-researched field of Tsarist, Soviet and Russian continuity in the denigration of ‘Ukrainian nationalism’ that goes back as far as the early 18th century. The article focuses on the Soviet and post-Soviet eras by showing how the growth of Russian nationalism, ‘conservative values’ and anti(Ukrainian)nationalism has taken place during specific periods that have combined re-Stalinization through the glorification of Joseph Stalin and downplaying and ignoring of his mass crimes against humanity with anti-Western xenophobia. Putin’s re-Stalinization is therefore in line with a tradition that requires domestic and external enemies to sustain the authoritarian nationalist militocracy.
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Taras Kuzio
Taras Kuzio
Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta, Canada
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Communist and Post-Communist Studies (2016) 49 (1): 87–99.
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Taras Kuzio; Soviet and Russian anti-(Ukrainian) nationalism and re-Stalinization. Communist and Post-Communist Studies 1 March 2016; 49 (1): 87–99. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.postcomstud.2015.12.005
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