Introduction
- Re-emergence of the Russian challenge
- European far right milieu
- Research background
- Aims and structure of the book
Chapter 1: Soviet Russia in the Western Far Right Perspective: Ideology, Collaboration, Active Measures (pictures)
- Introduction
- National-Bolshevism: the pro-Russian far right in interwar Germany
- Reviving the Tauroggen myth: the rise of far right neutralism in West Germany and Austria
- Towards the European Imperium: the case of Francis Parker Yockey
- Jean Thiriart: towards the Euro-Soviet Empire from Vladivostok to Dublin
- Conclusion
Chapter 2. Russia’s Opening to the Western Far Right (pictures)
- Introduction
- Aleksandr Dugin and the “red-brown” alliance
- Vladimir Zhirinovsky and money politics
- Sergey Glazyev and the economic doomsayers
- “The Patriotic International”: lobbying for Iraq and Russia
- Sergey Baburin: hiring the far right celebrities
- Conclusion
Chapter 3. Putin’s Russia, an Authoritarian Kleptocracy with a Twist (pictures)
- Introduction
- The Potemkin state
- The revival of anti-Westernism
- The twist
- The “beacon of hope”
- Conclusion
Chapter 4. Far Right Election Observers in the Service of the Kremlin’s Domestic and Foreign Policies (pictures)
- Introduction
- CIS-EMO
- Eurasian Observatory for Democracy & Elections
- European Centre for Geopolitical Analysis
- Cooperation with Civic Control
- The OSCE obsession
- Conclusion
Chapter 5. Undermining the West through Mass Media (pictures)
- Introduction
- Failing soft power
- Bringing the rebels
- Pro-Kremlin “Re-information” Efforts and Structural Media Relations
- Conclusion
Chapter 6. Far Right Structures in Europe as Pro-Moscow Front Organisations
- Introduction
- Austria
- Italy
- France
- Conclusion
Chapter 7. The Moscow-Strasbourg-Brussels Axis
- Introduction
- “Collective counselling” in Moscow
- The parliamentary battlefield in Strasbourg and Brussels
- Conclusion
Conclusion