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Steffen Kailitz (HAIT, Dresden) & Andreas Umland (IEAC, Kyiv), ”Why Fascists Took Over the Reichstag but Have Not Captured the Kremlin: A Comparison of Weimar Germany and Post-Soviet Russia,” Nationalities Papers, 2016, 15 pp. DOI: 10.1080/00905992.2016.1258049

ABSTRACT: Like Weimar Germany, contemporary Russia is home to fascist actors and widespread nationalism. But unlike interwar Germany, the party system in post-Soviet Russia is heavily manipulated and civil society remains underdeveloped. This means that fascists have not had a chance to use elections or to penetrate civil society in order to build up political support. The continuing presence of a resolutely authoritarian, yet non-fascist “national leader” (Vladimir Putin) keeps the country from becoming a liberal democracy but it also, for now, makes it less likely that the regime will become fascist.

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https://www.academia.edu/30638621/Why_Fascists_Took_Over_the_Reichstag_but_Have_Not_Captured_the_Kremlin_A_Comparison_of_Weimar_Germany_and_Post-Soviet_Russia

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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311784498_Why_fascists_took_over_the_Reichstag_but_have_not_captured_the_Kremlin_a_comparison_of_Weimar_Germany_and_post-Soviet_Russia

More Info: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00905992.2016.1258049

Publisher: Routledge

Journal Name: Nationalities Papers: The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity

Organization: Association for the Study of Nationalities

Publication Date: Dec 20, 2016

P.S.: A possible substantive critique of, elaboration on, or rebuttal to, the above article may be possible to publish in English in the “Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society,” in German in “Forum fuer osteuropaeische Ideen- und Zeitgeschichte” or in Russian in “Forum noveishei vostochnoevropeiskoi istorii i kul’tury.” (Or, perhaps, “Nationalities Papers” itself would be willing to publish one or more English response/s.)

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