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Russian Intellectual Antisemitism in the Post-Communist Era
Contributor(s): Rossman, Vadim (Author), Monas, Sidney (Foreword by)
ISBN: 0803246943     ISBN-13: 9780803246942
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
OUR PRICE:   $33.25  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: May 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Discrimination & Race Relations
- Social Science | Minority Studies
- Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social
Dewey: 305.892
Series: Studies in Antisemitism
Physical Information: 0.72" H x 6" W x 9" (1.04 lbs) 319 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Russia
- Ethnic Orientation - Jewish
 
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Antisemitism has had a long and complex history in Russian intellectual life and has revived in the post-Communist era. In their concept of the identity of the Jewish people, many academics and other thinkers in Russia continue to cast Jews in a negative or ambivalent role. An inherent rivalry exists between "Russia" and "the Jews" because Russians have often viewed themselves-whether through the lens of atheistic communism or that of the most conservative elements of the Orthodox Church-as a chosen people whose destiny is to lead the way to world salvation. In this book, Vadim Rossman presents the foundations and present influence of intellectual antisemitism in Russia. He examines the antisemitic roots of some major trends in Russian intellectual thought that emerged in earlier decades of the twentieth century and are still significant in the post-Communist era: neo-Eurasianism, Eurasian historiography, National Bolshevism, neo-Slavophilism, National Orthodoxy, and various forms of racism. Such extreme right-wing ideology continues to appeal to a certain segment of the Russian population and seems unlikely to disappear soon. Rossman confronts and challenges a range of disturbing, sometimes contradictory, but often quite sophisticated antisemitic ideas posed by Russian sociologists, historians, philosophers, theologians, political analysts, anthropologists, and literary critics. Vadim Rossman is an independent scholar who lives in Austin, Texas. Sidney Monas is a professor emeritus of Slavic languages and history at the University of Texas at Austin.