Political Anti-Semitism in Post-Soviet Russia: Actors and Ideas in 1991-2003, Vyacheslav Likhachev. Ed. and trans. from Russian by Eugene Veklerov. Stuttgart, Germany: ibidem-Verlag, 2006. Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society Series. Andreas Umland, ed. 230 pp. [euro]24.90 paper.
"It is a tragedy that a nation that fought so valiantly to defeat Nazi fascism now sees the emergence of neo-fascist groups among its own citizens," said former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Alexander Vershbow in a speech he delivered in Moscow in March 2004. According to recent polls, 72 percent of Russia's population of approximately 143 million people believe that nothing prevents its Jews from …