Between the Weimar and Bonn Scenarios: Post-Soviet Russian Anti-Americanism and the Post-War German Experience

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In spite of relative political stabilization and impressive economic growth during the last years, ultra-nationalism, rabid anti-Americanism and a Russian equivalent of the "Dolchstosslegende" (legend of a stab in the back) have become major intellectual and political trends in the Russian Federation, and are reminiscent of the Weimar Republic. Published in "Russia Profile," May 24, 2007, & "American Chronicle," April 8, 2008.

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============================================================================== Andreas Umland, CertTransl (Leipzig), MA (Stanford), MPhil (Oxford), DipPolSci, DrPhil (FU Berlin), PhD (Cambridge). Visiting fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution (more...)