Hyperborea: The Arctic Myth of Contemporary Russian Radical Nationalists

After the disintegration of the Soviet Union Russians had to search for a new identity. This was viewed as an urgent task by ethnic Russian nationalists, who were dreaming of a ‘pure Russian country’, or at least of the privileged status of ethnic Russians within the Russian state. To mobilise peopl...

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Published in:	Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics
Main Author:	Victor Shnirelman
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Sciendo 2014-12-01
Subjects:	Russia usable past the Aryan myth radical ideologies racism anti-Semitism
Online Access:	https://www.jef.ee/index.php/journal/article/view/158

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