title: 3 Eduard Limonov’s National Bolshevik Party and the Nazi Legacy: Titular Nations vs Ethnic Minorities
abstract: BackgroundThe National Bolshevik Party (Natsional-bol'shevistskaia partiia, or NBP), founded by the writers Aleksandr Dugin and Eduard Limonov as 'the most leftwing among the right-wing parties and the most right-wing among the leftwing parties' (Limonov 1996a),1 is one of the most interesting (although highly controversial) phenomena in Russia's recent political history.The NBP burst onto the Russian political scene in the early 1990s with self-styled 'legislative initiatives' , such as establi