Novikova Olga Nikolaevna – Ph.D. in History, Head of the Department of Europe and America, INION RAS
Recent years have witnessed increasing academic, media, and political attention to the threat of far-right terrorism whose proponents do not accept the democratic principle of majority rule and are willing to support, threaten to use, and use violence to promote their ideology. The article characterizes the main features of far-right ideology: racism, nationalism, misogyny, class discrimination, and eco-extremism. Of particular interest are the views of the so-called revolutionary right as a subcategory of the extreme right movement. Their activities are developing along the lines of four strategies: avant-gardism, cell system, resistance without leaders, metapolitics. The article also presents an analysis of the wave theory of the development of far-right extremism, proposed by Christy Campion, and describes three waves of far-right movement activation: anti-communist, anti-immigrant, anti-Islamic. In conclusion, the current wave of terrorism in Europe is considered, which experts assess ambiguously and contradictoryly: although statistics indicate the growth in left-wing radical extremism, far-right terrorism was still considered to be the main security threat until 2021.
far-right extremism, Europe, revolutionary right, waves of far-right extremism.
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