Description: This book gathers leading experts in the first scholarly study of a new Russian fascism that draws on distinctly modern forms of control and violence as much as on historical precedents.
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Dr Ian Garner is Assistant Professor at the Center for Totalitarian Studies at the Pilecki Institute in Warsaw. He is also an adjunct faculty member in War Studies at the Royal Military College, Canada, Fellow at the Centre for International & Defence Policy, Canada, as well as lifetime fellow of the Royal Historical Society in London. His books include Stalingrad Lives: Stories of Combat and Survival (Mc-Gill-Queen's UP 2022) and Z Generation: Into the Heart of Russia's Fascist Youth (Hurst/Oxford UP 2023). He regularly writes for major media outlets including the Globe & Mail, National Post, The Guardian, Foreign Policy, and UnHerd.
Review Quotes: Putin's regime evidently shares many striking similarities with imperial nationalism and fascism--something mainstream scholarship on contemporary Russia prefers to ignore or discard. Yet Russia's brutal and unprovoked full-scale aggression against Ukraine has conclusively proven such an approach to be shortsighted and mistaken. This pioneering study represents a valuable intellectual contribution to a long-overdue and honest discussion of the nature of the totalitarian regime in Moscow. This makes the book a required reading for students of Russia, international relations, and comparative politics, as well as anyone who is trying to make sense of Russian belligerence and expansionism.--Petro Kuzyk, Associate Professor of International Relations, Ivan Franko University of Lviv