Thursday 26 March 2026 17:00
Registration: Link to Termino
Institute of East European History, Hörsaal
Spitalgasse 2 Hof 3.2, 1090 Wien
Wolfgang Mueller: Welcome and introduction
Zbyněk Vydra: Presentation of the volume
Gergely Romsics: Commentary – The Interwar White International
Anton Shekhovtsov: Commentary – The Significance of the Russian Far Right Today
In the interwar period, the radical right, which represented one of the most prominent groups of Russian political exiles, was inspired by new ideologies, primarily fascism. Exile groups included monarchists, new factions such as the so called Mladorossy (Young Russians), Fascists, Russian military émigrés, and the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad. This volume is especially important in that contemporary right wing radicalism in Russia draws on the thinking of these right wing exiles.
Zbyněk Vydra is an assistant professor at the Institute of Historical Sciences, University of Pardubice and editor of The Russian Radical Right in Exile, 1918–1945: Without the Tsar and Fatherland.
Gergely Romsics is a university docent at Eötvös Loránd University Budapest (ELTE) and author of The White International: Sources of Counter-Revolutionary Thinking about a New Central European Order Around 1920.
Anton Shekhovtsov is a visiting professor at the Central European University (CEU) Vienna and author of Russia and the Western Far Right.