@article {62811,
	title = {Toward an Uncivil Society? Contextualizing the Recent Decline of Extremely Right-Wing Parties in Russia},
	year = {2002},
	note = {WCFIA Working Paper 02{\textendash}03, May 2002.},
	month = {Jan 1, 2002},
	abstract = {Since the late 1990s, the relative weight of ultra{\textendash}nationalist parties in Russian parliamentary and extra{\textendash}parliamentary politics has, after reaching a certain peak in the mid{\textendash}1990s, declined. The paper argues that this trend can, for a number of reasons, not be taken as proof for a lasting evaporation of right{\textendash}wing extremist ideas from high politics in Russia. In particular, parallel developments within the voluntary sector, namely the emergence of a multifaceted uncivil society, suggest that Russian right{\textendash}wing extremism may currently experience a period of transition rather than decay. The example of the rise of the notorious neo{\textendash}fascist Alexander Dugin from a lunatic fringe publicist to a highly placed political advisor with close links to both, the legislative and executive branches of the Russian state, in 1998{\textendash}2001, is used as an illustration that radically anti-Western ideas will continue to have an impact on Russia{\textquoteright}s elite thinking, and policies.},
	author = {Umland, Andreas}
}
