Nationalist Imaginings of the Russian Past

Anatolii Fomenko and the Rise of Alternative History in Post-Communist Russia. With a foreword by Donald Ostrowski



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Nationalist Imaginings of the Russian Past
Anatolii Fomenko and the Rise of Alternative History in Post-Communist Russia. With a foreword by Donald Ostrowski
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Anatolii Fomenko is a distinguished Russian mathematician turned popular history writer, founder of the so-called New Chronology school, and part of the explosion of alternative historical writing that has emerged in Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Among his more startling claims are that the Old Testament was written after the New Testament, that Russia is older than Greece and Rome, and that the medieval Mongol 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’s publications invariably outsell his conventional rivals. Just as Putin has restored Russia’s faith in its future, Fomenko and an army of fellow alternative historians are determined to restore Russia’s faith in its past. For Fomenko, the key to Russia’s greatness in the future lies in ensuring that Russians understand the true greatness of their past. Fomenko and other pseudo-historians have built upon existing Russian notions of identity, specifically the widespread belief in the positive qualities of empire and the special mission of Russia. He has drawn upon previous attempts to establish a Russian identity, ranging from Slavophilism through Stalinism to Eurasianism. While fantastic, Fomenko’s pseudo-history strikes many Russian readers as no less legitimate than the lies and distortions peddled by Communist propagandists, Tsarist historians and church chroniclers.
The author

About the author

The author:

Dr Konstantin Sheiko studied Law and History at the Moscow Institute of Economics, Politics and Law before receiving a Master’s in International Relations from the United States International University and a Ph. D. in History from the University of Wollongong, Australia.

The collaborator:

Dr Stephen Brown teaches Russian History at the University of Wollongong.

The author of the foreword:

Prof. Donald Ostrowski teaches Russian History at the Harvard University Extension School.
Reviews

Reviews

“[…] Sheiko’s work marks a milestone in the analysis of one of the main currents of contemporary Russian nationalist thought, hitherto quite unknown to scholars.” (international Affairs, Januar 2011)“Konstantin Sheiko has produced an interesting and useful short study of a significant and most disturbing subject.” (Slavic Review, 25.10.2010)
Additional Information

Additional Information

Delivery time 2-3 Tage / 2-3 days
Author Konstantin Sheiko
Editor Andreas Umland
Number of pages 262
Language English
Publication date Feb 1, 2009
Weight (kg) 0.3680
ISBN-13 9783898219150