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Friends and colleagues (in ABC order)

Kai Arzheimer
Professor of Empirical Political Science at the University of Mainz. Author of Die Wähler der extremen Rechten 1980-2002 (Wiesbaden: Verl. fur Sozialwiss., 2008).
Tamir Bar-On
Professor at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education. Author of Where Have All the Fascists Gone? (Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2007).
Taras Kuzio
Senior research fellow at the University of Toronto. Author of, among others, Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives on Nationalism (Hannover: Ibidem-Verlag, 2007), Ukraine-Crimea-Russia: Triangle of Conflict (Hannover: Ibidem-Verlag, 2007), and Ukraine. Perestroika to Independence (London: Macmillan, 1994).
Roger Eatwell
Professor of European Politics at the University of Bath. Author of Fascism: A History (New York: Allen Lane, 1996) and Fascism and the Extreme Right (London and New York: Routledge, 2009).
Aleksandr Galkin
Director of the Centre of Political Theory at the Institute of Comparative Politics of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Author of The Sociology of Fascism (Moscow: Nauka, 1971), German Fascism (Moscow: Nauka, 1989) and Reflections on Politics and Political Science (Moscow: Overley, 2004).
Tudor Georgescu
Research assistant for the Wellcome Trust funded project on “Romanian Eugenics and Its International Dimension”. Director of the Pulse Project.
Roger Griffin
Professor of Modern History at Oxford Brookes University. Author of The Nature of Fascism (London and New York: Routledge, 1993), Modernism and Fascism: The Sense of a Beginning under Mussolini and Hitler (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) and A Fascist Century (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).
Matthew Feldman
Senior Lecturer in History in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Northampton. Author of Beckett's Books: A cultural History of Samuel Beckett's 'Interwar Notes' (New York: Continuum, 2006).
Paul Jackson
Associate Lecturer in History at Oxford Brookes University.
Aristotle Kallis
Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Lancaster University. Author of Fascist Ideology: Territory and Expansion in Italy and Germany (1919-1945) (London: Routledge, 2000), National Socialist Propaganda in the Second World War (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2005) and Genocide and Fascism: The Eliminationist Drive in Fascist Europe (London: Routledge, 2008).
Todd Landman
Professor of Government at the University of Essex. Author of Protecting Human Rights (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 2005), Studying Human Rights (London: Routledge, 2006), and Issues and Methods in Comparative Politics (London: Routledge, 2000).
Andrei Rogatchevski
Senior Lecturer in Russian at the University of Glasgow. Author of A Biographical and Critical Study of Russian Writer Eduard Limonov (Lewiston-Queenston-Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2003).
Valentin Sandulescu
Currently, a third-year PhD student at the Central European University.
Marius Turda
RCUK Academic Fellow in Twentieth Century Central and Eastern European Bio-Medicine at Oxford Brookes University. Author of The Idea of National Superiority in Central Europe, 1880-1918 (Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2004).
Andreas Umland
Research Fellow at the Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. Author of Toward an Uncivil Society?: Contextualizing the Recent Decline of Extremely Right-Wing Parties in Russia (Cambridge: Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, 2002).
Alexander Verkhovsky
Director of the SOVA Centre for Information and Analysis. Author of The State against Radical Nationalism: What Is to Be and What Is Not to be Done? [in Russian] (Moscow: ROO "Tsentr 'Panorama'", 2002) and Political Orthodoxy: Russian Orthodox Nationalists and Fundamentalists, 1995-2001 [in Russian] (Moscow: Tsentr "Sova", 2003).

Journals (in ABC order)

Comparative European Politics
An international forum for research, theory and debate on the comparative politics and political economy of contemporary Europe within and beyond the European Union, the processes of European integration and enlargement and the place of Europe and European states within international/global political and economic dynamics.
Forum für osteuropäische Ideen- und Zeitgeschichte
A research journal devoted to the history of the communist era in Central and Eastern Europe. "Forum" aims to bridge the gap between Eastern and Western scientific communities. Its editors translate and publish documents and articles from central and Eastern European scientists, especially concerning new findings from the archives in Prague, Budapest, Moscow, Warsaw and other cities.
Religion Compass: Political Religions
'Political Religion' is a hybrid discipline situated at the nexus of religious, social, historical, cultural, and ideological studies. It is the study of how, responding to the tradition-eroding conditions of globalizing modernity, religions can be melded into secular ideological forces and secular ideologies synthesised into 'sacred' causes, often experienced by their protagonists with the intensity of an absolute belief.
Journal for the Study of Radicalism
The journal engages in serious, scholarly exploration of the forms, representations, meanings, and historical influences of radical social movements. With sensitivity and openness to historical and cultural contexts of the term, we loosely define 'radical,' as distinguished from 'reformers,' to mean groups who seek revolutionary alternatives to hegemonic social and political institutions, and who use violent or non-violent means to resist authority and to bring about change.
Journal of Political Ideologies
The journal is dedicated to the analysis of political ideology both in its theoretical and conceptual aspects, and with reference to the nature and roles of concrete ideological manifestations and practices. The journal serves as a major discipline-developing vehicle for an innovative, growing and vital field in political studies, exploring new methodologies and illuminating the complexity and richness of ideological structures and solutions that form, and are formed by, political thinking and political imagination.
Modernism/Modernity
Concentrating on the period extending roughly from 1860 to the present, the journal focuses on the methodological, archival, and theoretical exigencies particular to modernist studies. It encourages an interdisciplinary approach linking music, architecture, the visual arts, literature, and social and intellectual history. The journal's broad scope fosters dialogue between social scientists and humanists about the history of modernism and its relations tomodernization.
Patterns of Prejudice
A forum for exploring the historical roots and contemporary varieties of social exclusion and the demonization or stigmatisation of the Other. It probes the language and construction of 'race', nation, colour, and ethnicity, as well as the linkages between these categories. It encourages discussion of issues at the top of the public policy agenda, such as asylum, immigration, hate crimes and citizenship.
The Russian Review
A major academic journal of Russian studies. It publishes scholarly articles and book reviews in the areas of history, literature, film, fine arts, culture, society, and politics of the peoples of Russia.
West European Politics
The journal covers political and social issues in Western Europe. Its comprehensive scope, embracing all the major political and social developments in all West European countries, including the European Union, makes it essential reading for both political practitioners and academics.

Various resources

Backdoor Broadcasting Company
The Company’s Academic Service specializes in web-casting academic conferences, symposia, public lectures, workshops and seminars in order to further the dissemination of academic research.
The European Consortium for Political Research
An independent, scholarly association which supports and encourages the training, research and cross-national cooperation of political scientists in nearly 300 institutions throughout Europe and beyond.
The ECPR Standing Group on Extremism & Democracy
The Standing Group provides a platform and infrastructure to the broad range of scholars working on various aspects of 'extremism and democracy' around the world. The main focus of the Standing Group is on the political aspects of extremism. Although the term 'extremism' is used, scholars working with other terms to describe similar phenomena (such as fascism, fundamentalism, populism, radicalism, terrorism, etc.) are also welcome.
Russian Nationalism - a discussion group
This website/mailing group is designed as a forum of scholarly exchange for students, researchers, journalists and others interested in the history and current permutations of Russian right-wing thought and politics.
The Pulse Project (Podcasting, University Lectures & Science Education)
The Pulse-Project offers a wide range of freely accessible audio and video lectures for both general and specialised audiences, and delivered by eminent academics. It hopes to reflect and inform debates amongst academics, students, and the wider public alike, and to thereby engage with the formative scientific questions of our time.
National Identity in Russia from 1961
The project moves beyond ideology, political programmes, and voting patterns in order to examine views of the nation and Russianness among ordinary Russians, and to explore how far these may be traced back to the late Soviet era. The central themes are 'tradition' that means cultural memory, a self-consciously recognised relationship with the past, and 'deterritorialisation', which refers to the stresses placed on national and personal identity by migrancy, travel, and emigration.
The SOVA Centre for Information and Analysis
The Moscow-based Russian non-profit organisation that conducts informational and research work on such topics as nationalism and xenophobia, relations between the secular society and churches, and political radicalism.
Recommended books

Modernism and Fascism
Roger Griffin
Modernism and Fascism:
The Sense of a Beginning under Mussolini and Hitler


Clerical Fascism in Interwar Europe
Matthew Feldman, Marius Turda, Tudor Georgescu (eds)
Clerical Fascism in Interwar Europe


Galina Kozhevnikova, Anton Shekhovtsov et al.
Radical Russian Nationalism
Edited by Aleksandr Verkhovsky and Galina Kozhevnikova

A Fascist Century
Roger Griffin
A Fascist Century:
Essays by Roger Griffin

Edited by Matthew Feldman


Blood and Homeland
Marius Turda, Paul J. Weindling (eds)
Blood and Homeland:
Eugenics and Racial Nationalism in Central and Southeast Europe, 1900-1940

Fascism: Past and Present, East and West
Roger Griffin, Werner Loh,
Andreas Umland (eds)
Fascism
Past and Present, West and East