ABSTRACT
This chapter offers a comparative overview of the fascist, semi-fascist, and near-fascist organizations, and focuses on the most significant features of their structure, activity, and ideology. The choice of activities by the leaders of fascist organizations is more a matter of immediate tactics and opportunities than of long-term strategy. Since 1945, one of the dilemmas facing all fascists has been that of defining their relationship to the classical European fascism that arose in the interwar period. Most commonly, as in the ideologies of the Liberal-Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), the Russian National Unity (RNU), and the Russian National Union (RNS), enemies are found in the West, in the South, and in the East. On the ideological plane, the Orthodox-tsarist epoch of Russia's history is the clearest and most reliable of the available sources of traditional values. Only the Union Christian Rebirth (UCR) has an ideology that may be regarded as wholly native, but it is reactionary ideology, not fascist one.
