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> 1. Publ.: Nationalist Imaginings of the Russian Past
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> Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 10:00:40 -0700
> From: Andreas Umland <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Publ.: Nationalist Imaginings of the Russian Past
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> Nationalist Imaginings of the Russian Past=0AAnatolii Fomenko and the Rise
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> of Alternative History in Post-Communist Russia=0AWith a foreword by
> Donald=
> Ostrowski=0ABy Konstantin Sheiko in collaboration with Stephen
> Brown=0A=0A=
> Stuttgart and Hannover: ibidem-Verlag, 2009=0A262 pp., ISBN
> 978-3-89821-915=
> -0, EUR34,90=0A=0A=3D Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, vol.
> 86=
> =0AISSN 1614-3515=0A=0AAnatolii Fomenko is a distinguished Russian
> mathemat=
> ician turned popular history writer, founder of the so-called New
> Chronolog=
> y school, and part of the explosion of alternative historical writing that
> =
> has emerged in Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Among his
> mor=
> e startling claims are that the Old Testament was written after the New
> Tes=
> tament, that Russia is older than Greece and Rome, and that the medieval
> Mo=
> ngol Empire was in fact a Slav-Turk world empire, a Russian Horde, to
> which=
> Western and Eastern powers paid tribute. While academic historians
> dismiss=
> Fomenko as a dangerous ethno-nationalist or post-modern clown, Fomenko=E2=
> =80=99s publications invariably outsell his conventional rivals. Just as
> Pu=
> tin has restored Russia=E2=80=99s faith in its future, Fomenko and an army
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> of fellow alternative historians are determined to restore
> Russia=E2=80=99s=
> faith in its past. For Fomenko, the key to Russia=E2=80=99s greatness in
> t=
> he future lies in ensuring that Russians
> understand the true greatness of their past. Fomenko and other
> pseudo-hist=
> orians have built upon existing Russian notions of identity, specifically
> t=
> he widespread belief in the positive qualities of empire and the special
> mi=
> ssion of Russia. He has drawn upon previous attempts to establish a
> Russian=
> identity, ranging from Slavophilism through Stalinism to Eurasianism.
> Whil=
> e fantastic, Fomenko=E2=80=99s pseudo-history strikes many Russian readers
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> as no less legitimate than the lies and distortions peddled by Communist
> pr=
> opagandists, Tsarist historians and church chroniclers.=0A=0AThe author: =
> =0ADr Konstantin Sheiko studied Law and History at the Moscow Institute of
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> Economics, Politics and Law before receiving a Master=E2=80=99s in
> Internat=
> ional Relations from the United States International University and a Ph.
> D=
> . in History from the University of Wollongong, Australia. =0A=0AThe
> collab=
> orator: =0ADr Stephen Brown teaches Russian History at the University of
> Wo=
> llongong.=0A=0AThe author of the foreword: =0AProf. Donald Ostrowski
> teache=
> s Russian History at the Harvard University Extension
> School.=0A=0A=0AOrder=
> via:=0Ahttp://www.ibidem-verlag.com/epages/61235722.sf/en_US/?ViewObjectID=
> =3D12591650=0Ahttp://www.amazon.de/Nationalist-Imaginings-Russian-Konstanti=
> n-Sheiko/dp/3898219151/ref=3Dcm_lmf_tit_11_rdssss0=0A=0AReview copies may
> b=
> e ordered via:[log in to unmask]
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