Richard Arnold
Muskingum University, Political Science, Faculty Member
- Ohio State University, Political Science, Graduate Studentadd
- Genocide Studies, Fascism, Totalitarianism, Neo-Fascism, Political Science, History, and 21 moreAnthropology, International Relations, Human Rights, Hate Crimes, Russian Foreign Policy, Extreme and Far Right, Russian Nationalism, Ukraine, Post-Soviet Studies, Politics of Ukraine, Political Extremism/Radicalism/Populism, Russia, Right-Wing Extremism, Nationalism, Post-Soviet Politics, far-right politics Europe, Ukrainian Politics, Post-Soviet Regimes, Extreme Right Politics, Russian Politics, and Radical Rightedit
- Scholar of Russian politics and society.edit
Racist violence in Russia has recently become a subject of interest to scholars and analysts of Russian politics. What are the similarities and differences between racist violence in Russia and the West? How does the level of Russian... more
Racist violence in Russia has recently become a subject of interest to scholars and analysts of Russian politics. What are the similarities and differences between racist violence in Russia and the West? How does the level of Russian racist violence compare to other societies? Do racist hate groups in Russia have similar origins to groups in the West? This article considers these questions. I first demonstrate that Russia is indeed the most dangerous country in Europe for ethnic minorities, and argue that such violence is more ‘systematic’ (structured, ideologically coherent, patterned) than in other developed societies. The high level of violence against ethnic minorities in Russia is ‘over-determined’ by a combination of post-Soviet social and economic social changes, the brutalizing consequences of a long counter-insurgency campaign, and government passivity (and sometimes complicity) in the face of racist violence and hate speech. Thus, Russia’s systematic racist violence is analytically closer to outright ethnic conflict than to a form of criminal deviance that could aptly be termed ‘hate crime’.
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Putin’s Olympics. The Sochi games and the evolution of twenty-first century Russia, by Robert W. Orttung and Sufian N. Zhemukhov, Abingdon, Routledge, 2016, xiv + 135 pp., $138 (hardback), ISBN-10: 0415823722
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This chapter introduces some basic contours of Russia’s contemporary radical right scene. It distinguishes between systemic and non-systemic ultra-nationalist groups in Putin’s Russia, the principal difference being the groups’ and... more
This chapter introduces some basic contours of Russia’s contemporary radical right scene. It distinguishes between systemic and non-systemic ultra-nationalist groups in Putin’s Russia, the principal difference being the groups’ and individual actors’ proximity and clarity of connections to the crypto-authoritarian regime. The systemic component consists of political groups, authors, and activists that are allowed or encouraged to participate in official mass media and public life. Main actors of the mainstream radical right include Vladimir Zhirinovskii’s Liberal-Democratic Party of Russia and organizations using the “Rodina” (Motherland) label. Major expressions of government-supported Russian “uncivil society” and anti-democratic intellectual discourse include the writings of the far right political thinkers Lev Gumilev and Aleksandr Dugin. Manifestations of the non-systemic component of Russia’s extreme right include skinheads and their use of ethnic violence, political movements such as the Movement Against Illegal Immigration, other descendants of the “Pamiat” (Memory) organization in the 1980s, and their activities.