Rusko mezi fašismem a rozpadem?
Russia between Fascism and disintegration?

Summary/Abstract: Fyodorov, Yuri: Rossija meždu fašizmom i raspadom. Kyiv: Centr issledovanij armii, konversii i razoruženija and Biznespoligraf 2017, 144 pp., ISBN 978-966-139-078-1. In his book titled "Russia between Fascism and disintegration", Yuri Fyodorov, a Russian expert on the foreign policy of the Russian Federation, international security, and Russo-American relations, outlines two future development scenarios for Russia: the establishment of a militaristic, Orthodox Catholic/Fascist dictatorship, or a rise of centrifugal tendencies ultimately resulting in a disintegration of the state. The author is convinced that Putin’s regime finds itself in a deep crisis, and points at signs of its step-by-step Fascistization in recent years against the backdrop of Fascist tendencies in Russia’s history, analysing potential sources of secessionism and disintegration in the multi-ethnic Russian Empire. The reviewer concludes that the author’s predictions of the future development of Russia are beyond scientific verification by available methodologies, but claims that Fyodorov’s book deserves attention both for its unquestionable uniqueness and intellectual courage and for the precision with which the author builds his arguments. Using the optics of theories of Fascism, the author managed to deliver a succinct and compact analysis of principal problems and trends in political developments in today’s Russia.

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