Nashism

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
For other uses, see Nashism (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Nazism or Nationalism.

Nashism (

political scientists define this word differently, as described below. The words "nashists" and "nashism" have also been used in reference to the Nashi
political movement with the word "ours" in its title.

Nevzorov's "Nashi"

The word was first coined by Alexander Nevzorov, the anchor of the Russian TV program 600 Seconds.[2] In January 1991 Nevzorov produced a documentary and a controversial series of TV reports from Vilnius titled Ours (Nashi), about the actions of the Soviet spetsnaz during the January Events, when the Soviet military forces attempted to crush the declared independence of Lithuania, in which Nevzorov was markedly sympathetic to Soviet actions.[3] As a freelance journalist Jules Evans wrote, reporting from the Soviet Union:

"the journalist Aleksander Nevzorov appeared on TV, standing in front of the demonstrators in Lithuania holding a

motherland.”[4]

In November 1991 Nevzorov established the People's Liberation Movement "

fascists
", as a hint to the imperial position of the movement in support of the indivisibility of the Soviet Union, in particular, their justification of the use of military force to this end.

Youth Movement "Nashi"

"Nasha Army" youth military troops in Smolensk, near Belarus.
Main article: Nashi (youth movement)

The pun "nashism/fascism" is often used by the political opponents of "Nashi". In particular, it was liberally used after the anti-Estonian manifestations of "Nashi" in relation to the events around the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn. A popular anti-Nashi slogan is "Nashism Shall Not Pass!" ("Нашизм не пройдет!"[6]), an adaptation of the slogan "They shall not pass".

Corporatism

Andrei Illarionov describes the emerging corporatism in Russia as power in hands of Silovik power structures, the current incarnation of Chekism, whose ideology he defines by the word "nashism" ("ours-ism") in its most general sense: preferential treatment of "ours". In an article initially printed in Kommersant and then reprinted several times in the West, he writes:[7]

"Ours-ism" does not know national or ethnic boundaries. The former chancellor of a foreign country [Gerhard Schröder] is made a member of the corporation and becomes "our man in Europe." Meanwhile, a Russian businessman [Mikhail Khodorkovsky] who created a company that brought billions into the national treasury turns out to be an "other" and is exiled to the depths of Siberia.

See also

References

  1. ^ Mikhail Epstein, "Types of New Words:An Attempt of Classification, reported that the conference "Русская неография (к 40-летию научного направления)", С.-Петербург, Институт лингвистических исследований, 23-25 октября 2006 "
  2. ISBN 5-87902-027-4
    (in Russian)
  3. ^ ISCIP – Perspective
  4. ^ "the Hunt for a National Idea"
  5. ^ "www.rau.su/observer/N21_93/21_06.HTM - Сервис регистрации доменов и хостинга *.RU-TLD.RU".
  6. ^ "Пикет у штаба молодежного движения 'Идущие вместе'", Radio Freedom, April 21, 2005 (in Russian)
  7. ^ Andrei Illarionov, "When the state means business", International Herald Tribune, January 25, 2006
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nashism&oldid=1218010566"