ABSTRACT

In this chapter, the author focuses on the extreme right, broadly speaking, in the tradition of the Black Hundred. In 1905 the Black Hundred and the Bolsheviks killed each other, today their relations are much better. Yuri Vlasov began his public career with a massive attack against the KGB and within a few years had joined the camp of the Black Hundred. The fact that the extreme right and the neo-Bolsheviks have moved closer together has not been a mere accident. Radical populism can move "left" or "right" with equal ease, the old labels do not make much sense, in any case. Some servants of the Church have openly come out on the side of the extreme right, one of them was Metropolitan Ioann of Petersburg and Ladoga. His appeals were openly chauvinistic and anti-Semitic; before 1990 he was not known as an outstanding patriot.