The extreme nationalist threat in Russia: the growing influences of Western rightist ideas

chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 Modernisation and conservative backlash -- chapter 2 Yeltsin's Russia as a divided country-a seedbed of growing conservatism -- chapter 3 Actors of the conservative resistance: movements and parties -- chapter 4 The 'third way' worldview in the Westernisation of Russia -- chapter 5 Geopolitics as a conservative Weltanschauung-the clash of civilisations -- chapter 6 Russian racism as a conservative Weltanschauung -- chapter 7 Putin's Russia: towards a synthesis?.

In post-totalitarian Russia, the ideological climate has been gravitating more and moretowards right-wing conservative values coloured by Russian nationalism. Taken as awhole, the more or less rightist attitudes in society include both moderate and pragmaticviews as well as ideas of extreme nationalism. The latter include fascism and nationalsocialism. In late 1996, Grigorii Yavlinsky1 concluded that 'a major opportunity wasemerging for the spread of national socialism in Russia' (Parland 1997, 12)