Militant Right-Wing Extremism in Putin's Russia: Legacies, Forms and Threats - Paperback

by Miroslav Mares (Author), Martin Larys (Author), Jan Holzer (Author)

This book explores right-wing extremism in Russia, its historical context, and its resurgence over the past thirty years.

Author Biography

Jan Holzer is a Political Scientist, Professor in the Department of Political Science and Principal Researcher in the International Institute of Political Science, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. His research interests include Modern Russian Politics; Comparative Area Studies, Political Systems/Regimes of the East European Countries and former Soviet Republics; Theory of Undemocratic and Hybrid Regimes and Theory of Democratization.

Martin Larys is the Chairman and Co-founder of the Centre for Security Analyses and Prevention, Czech Republic, since 2012. He previously worked in business development of post-Soviet countries and as a foreign correspondent for a Czech newspaper in Moscow. He has published several articles on right-wing extremism and also on Russian politics and the politics of the former Soviet republics (particularly the Caucasus and the Ukraine). In 2009, he earned a degree in Political Science from the Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.

Miroslav Mares is a Political Scientist, Professor in the Department of Political Science and Principal Researcher in the International Institute of Political Science, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. He is a member of the International Association of Political Science, the European Expert Network on Terrorism Issues (chair of the subgroup on right-wing extremist, left-wing extremist and separatist violence in Europe) and the editorial board of the Radicalisation Awareness Network. His research interests include political extremism and terrorism as well as security policy in East Central Europe.