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Ernst Niekisch National Bolshevism and the Soviet Union

Student: Kanaev Artem

Supervisor: Alexander Semyonov

Faculty: School of Arts and Humanities

Educational Programme: History (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 7

Year of Graduation: 2020

In focus of the final qualifying work "National Bolshevism Ernst Niekisch and the Soviet Union" are the activities of the German politician and publicist Ernst Niekisch in context of his "national Bolshevik" political project. The chronoligcal context of the work is the 1920-1930s, mainly the years of the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich, when Niekisch's activity reached its peak. The research focus is on clarifying the role of the Soviet Union in the framework of the Niekisch National Bolshevik project in the context of the following research question: did Niekisch seek only geopolitical benefits in the potential alliance of Germany with the USSR, or was he, for example, about social renewal through adapting some socialist practices? What was the USSR for Niekisch as a politician, as a publicist? In order to understand it, the "Soviet contexts" of Niekisch’ biography are examined, along with his activities as a "National Bolshevik" within the framework of the general movement of the "conservative revolution"; current trends in the historiography of the "conservative revolution" and "national-Bolshevism" are studied; also, a comparative analysis of the political projects of Ernst Niekisch, Ernst Junger and Oswald Spengler was carried out in order to clarify the specifics of the interpretation of the Soviet project in the context of various German ideologies, which were attached to "socialist" ideas.

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