Dr. Ian Garner

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History in the Making: The War in Ukraine · Is Russia a Fascist State? (Part 1) · 4 Jun 2026 podcast

The origins I think

both intellectually and in terms of the careers of the particular people that have been promoted by the state and promoting those ideas to the state in the last few years, was you can trace it back to the nineteen sixties and the end of the Khrushchev era, the feeling that

the Soviet dream was really never going to happen.

Because clearly after after Stalin died, everybody said there were many mistakes made, this wasn't real communism.

Now we're gonna really give it a go.

Didn't happen.

The British Niveau regime turned to this myth of the Second World War and basically said, We're the senior generation, we died in the war, we led

led the nation to victory in the war, we as Russians, therefore, that's our ruling myth.

And there were a lot of people on the sidelines during that time who started to fish around for other ideas.

And you do start to see the growth of right-wing nationalism.

And then in the 1980s, which I think we've mythologized, both in the popular imagination in the West and in the scholarly imagination, because it was modish to work on this, as a time of liberalizing.

movements within Russia.

Those liberalizing movements were joined and opposed by some really scary far-right nationalist movements within the Soviet Union, groups like Pamet, Memory, and

literary magazines who began to break out and say that, you know what, Russian nationalism is the way to go.

Right.

That's what's gonna save us from this moribund era.

Notice we see again in the nineteen eighties this sensation that things are going nowhere, things are going badly, something has gone wrong.

What are we gonna do?

Russian nationalism, but also abroad.

People like Edward Limonov, who is a sort of far-right weird nationalist thinker, who is writing quite a critically well received book.

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