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RUSSIAN NEO-PAGAN MYTHS AND ANTISEMITISM

 RUSSIAN NEO-PAGAN MYTHS AND ANTISEMITISM

An article of the well-known Russian anthropologist, Senior Fellow of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences Victor A. Shnirelman, is devoted to an interesting and little-studied problem of modern Russian Neo-paganism. Russian Neo-paganism is one branch of contemporary Russian nationalism which emerged and developed in the 1970s - 1990s. Its ideology is based on the glorification of the pre-Christian Russian past and accuses Christianity of the brutal destruction of the legacy of the Great Ancestors. At the same time, Christianity is treated as an evil ideology created by Jews in order to establish their own dominance in the world and the subjugation of all peoples. Russian Neo-paganism is in fact rooted in Nazi-style rhetoric full of latent or open antisemitism. This paper discusses the ideology and its political implications. The article was first published in 1998 (Russian Neo-pagan Myths and Antisemitism. Jerusalem: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (ACTA № 13), 1998), but it does not lose its relevance today.

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