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Aleksandr Barkashov and Russian National Unity: Blackshirt Friends of the Nation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Sven Gunnar Simonsen
Sven Gunnar Simonsen*
Affiliation:
International Peace Institute, Oslo
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Russian National Unity (Russkoe Natsionalnoe Edinstvo—RNE) is the largest militant fascist group in Russia today. The founder and leader of the RNE, Aleksandr P. Barkashov, speaks of himself as a national-socialist, and praises Hitler's deeds for Germany. The RNE has pledged to establish a system of ethnic segregation in Russia were it to come to power.

This article seeks to analyze the ideology of the RNE as represented by its undisputed leader Barkashov and by the RNE Council which he dominates. Particular attention is paid to RNE's relation to Russian ethnicity. The first part discusses Barkashov and his organization's policies with regard to the russkii (ethnic Russian) nation and to Russian nationalism. Then follows a critical review of the RNE's relation to nazism and fascism. The article then considers the RNE's ideas about how the new Russian state should be shaped, i.e., its political and economic program. Finally, the RNE is placed in the wider Russian political landscape by means of a discussion of its political friends and foes.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 24 , Issue 4 , December 1996 , pp. 625 - 640
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Copyright © 1996 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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