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'''Anton Volodymyrovich Shekhovtsov''' ({{lang-ua|Антон Володимирович Шеховцов}}; {{lang-ru|Антон Владимирович Шеховцов}}; born 1978) is a [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] political scientist, academic and writer. He is known for his writings on the European [[Radical right (Europe)|radical right]] and in particular its connections to [[Russia]]. He is the editor of the ''Explorations of the Far Right'' book series at ''ibidem-Verlag'' and sits on the board of the open source ''Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies''.
'''Anton Volodymyrovich Shekhovtsov''' ({{lang-ua|Антон Володимирович Шеховцов}}; {{lang-ru|Антон Владимирович Шеховцов}}; born 1978) is a [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] political scientist, academic and writer. He is known for his writings on the European [[Radical right (Europe)|radical right]] and in particular its connections to [[Russia]]. He is the editor of the ''Explorations of the Far Right'' book series at ''ibidem-Verlag'' and sits on the board of the open access journal ''Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies''.


==Background==
==Background==
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Between 2010 and 2012 Shekhovtsov had two stints as a visiting fellow researcher at the [[University of Northampton]], as part of the Radicalism and New Media Research Group. He then went on to complete a PhD in Slavonic and East European studies at [[University College London]] between 2013 and 2017.
Between 2010 and 2012 Shekhovtsov had two stints as a visiting fellow researcher at the [[University of Northampton]], as part of the Radicalism and New Media Research Group. He then went on to complete a PhD in Slavonic and East European studies at [[University College London]] between 2013 and 2017.

== Controversy ==
In a [[Democracy Now!]] show on January 30, 2014, Professor [[Stephen F. Cohen]] alleged<ref>{{Cite web |title=Debate: Is Ukraine’s Opposition a Democratic Movement or a Force of Right-Wing Extremism? |url=http://www.democracynow.org/2014/1/30/debate_is_ukraines_opposition_a_democratic |access-date=2022-12-18 |website=Democracy Now! |language=en}}</ref> that Shekhovtsov represented the interests of [[Far-right politics in Ukraine|Ukrainian far-right]] movements, prompted by Shekhovtov's claim that 'the neo-Nazis and anti-Semites in western Ukraine… demand… the national democratic state'.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Debate: Is Ukraine’s Opposition a Democratic Movement or a Force of Right-Wing Extremism? |url=http://www.democracynow.org/2014/1/30/debate_is_ukraines_opposition_a_democratic |access-date=2022-12-18 |website=Democracy Now! |language=en}}</ref>

Speaking of [[Marina Ovsyannikova]]'s anti-war protest in March 2022 Shekhovtsov described it as a '[[Vladislav Surkov|Surkovian]] performance'.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ложка мёда в бочке дёгтя? Соцсети о протесте на Первом канале |url=https://www.svoboda.org/a/lozhka-myoda-v-bochke-dyogtya-sotsseti-o-proteste-na-pervom-kanale/31753554.html |access-date=2022-12-18 |website=Радио Свобода |language=ru}}</ref> In October 2022, following several of Ovsyannikova's illegal anti-war protests Basmanniy district court issued an arrest in absentia warrant.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Война России с Украиной: хроника событий 7-29 октября 2022 года - Новости на русском языке |url=https://www.bbc.com/russian/live/news-63179143 |access-date=2022-12-18 |website=BBC News Русская служба |language=ru-RU}}</ref>

==Works==
==Works==
Shekhovtsov's works have been featured on/at ''[[OpenDemocracy]]<ref>{{cite news|title=Anton Shekhovtsov|url=https://www.opendemocracy.net/author/anton-shekhovtsov|accessdate=July 15, 2017|work=openDemocracy|date=14 July 2017}}</ref>'', the [[Chatham House]]'',<ref>{{cite news|title=Anton Shekhovtsov|url=https://www.chathamhouse.org/europes-strategic-choices/speakers/anton-shekhovtsov|accessdate=July 15, 2017|work=Chatham House|date=14 July 2017}}</ref> [[Foreign Affairs]]<ref>{{cite news|title=Anton Shekhovtsov|url=https://www.foreignaffairs.com/authors/anton-shekhovtsov|accessdate=July 15, 2017|work=Foreign Affairs|date=14 July 2017}}</ref>'', the [[Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs]]''<ref>{{cite news|title=Anton Shekhovtsov|url=https://www.carnegiecouncil.org/people/anton-shekhovtsov|accessdate=July 15, 2017|work=Carnegie Council|date=14 July 2017}}</ref>'' and the [[Aspen Institute]].''<ref>{{cite news|title=Anton Shekhovtsov|url=https://www.aspen.review/author/anton-shekhovtsov/|accessdate=July 15, 2017|work=Aspen Institute|date=14 July 2017}}</ref>''
Shekhovtsov's works have been featured on/at ''[[OpenDemocracy]]<ref>{{cite news|title=Anton Shekhovtsov|url=https://www.opendemocracy.net/author/anton-shekhovtsov|accessdate=July 15, 2017|work=openDemocracy|date=14 July 2017}}</ref>'', the [[Chatham House]]'',<ref>{{cite news|title=Anton Shekhovtsov|url=https://www.chathamhouse.org/europes-strategic-choices/speakers/anton-shekhovtsov|accessdate=July 15, 2017|work=Chatham House|date=14 July 2017}}</ref> [[Foreign Affairs]]<ref>{{cite news|title=Anton Shekhovtsov|url=https://www.foreignaffairs.com/authors/anton-shekhovtsov|accessdate=July 15, 2017|work=Foreign Affairs|date=14 July 2017}}</ref>'', the [[Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs]]''<ref>{{cite news|title=Anton Shekhovtsov|url=https://www.carnegiecouncil.org/people/anton-shekhovtsov|accessdate=July 15, 2017|work=Carnegie Council|date=14 July 2017}}</ref>'' and the [[Aspen Institute]].''<ref>{{cite news|title=Anton Shekhovtsov|url=https://www.aspen.review/author/anton-shekhovtsov/|accessdate=July 15, 2017|work=Aspen Institute|date=14 July 2017}}</ref>''
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*''The Postwar Anglo-American Far Right: A Special Relationship of Hate'' (2014) with Paul Jackson<ref>{{cite journal |last=Shaffer |first=Ryan |year=2018 |title=The Post-War Anglo-American Far Right: A Special Relationship of Hate. Edited by Paul Jackson and Anton Shekhovtsov. Palgrave Macmillan. 2014. xii + 155pp. $64.00. |journal=History |volume=103 |issue=354 |pages=189–190 |doi=10.1111/1468-229X.12565}}</ref>
*''The Postwar Anglo-American Far Right: A Special Relationship of Hate'' (2014) with Paul Jackson<ref>{{cite journal |last=Shaffer |first=Ryan |year=2018 |title=The Post-War Anglo-American Far Right: A Special Relationship of Hate. Edited by Paul Jackson and Anton Shekhovtsov. Palgrave Macmillan. 2014. xii + 155pp. $64.00. |journal=History |volume=103 |issue=354 |pages=189–190 |doi=10.1111/1468-229X.12565}}</ref>
* ''Russia and the Western Far Right: Tango Noir'' (2017)<ref>{{cite journal |last=Droalin |first=Rodolphe |year=2018 |title=Anton Shekhovtsov, Russia and the Western Far Right |journal=Revue d'études comparatives Est-Ouest |volume=3 |issue=3 |pages=135–141 |doi=10.3917/receo1.493.0135}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Kuzio |first=Taras |year=2018 |title=Russia and the Western Far Right. Tango Noir |journal=Europe-Asia Studies |volume=70 |issue=10 |pages=1715–1717 |doi=10.1080/09668136.2018.1543971|s2cid=158236745 }}</ref>
* ''Russia and the Western Far Right: Tango Noir'' (2017)<ref>{{cite journal |last=Droalin |first=Rodolphe |year=2018 |title=Anton Shekhovtsov, Russia and the Western Far Right |journal=Revue d'études comparatives Est-Ouest |volume=3 |issue=3 |pages=135–141 |doi=10.3917/receo1.493.0135}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Kuzio |first=Taras |year=2018 |title=Russia and the Western Far Right. Tango Noir |journal=Europe-Asia Studies |volume=70 |issue=10 |pages=1715–1717 |doi=10.1080/09668136.2018.1543971|s2cid=158236745 }}</ref>
* ''The Rise and Fall of a Polish Agent of the Kremlin Influence: The Case of Janusz Niedźwiecki'' (2022)<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Rise and Fall of a Polish Agent of the Kremlin Influence |url=https://democratic-integrity.eu/the-rise-and-fall-of-a-polish-agent-of-the-kremlin-influence-the-case-of-janusz-niedzwiecki/ |access-date=2023-07-05 |website=Centre for Democratic Integrity |language=en-US}}</ref>


==See also==
==See also==
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[[Category:Historians of fascism]]
[[Category:Historians of fascism]]
[[Category:People of the Euromaidan]]
[[Category:People of the Euromaidan]]
[[Category:Academics and writers on far-right extremism]]
[[Category:Academics and writers on far-right politics]]
[[Category:The Moscow Times]]
[[Category:The Moscow Times people]]

Latest revision as of 22:51, 22 April 2024

Anton Shekhovtsov
Антон Володимирович Шеховцов
Anton Shekhovtsov in 2016
Born1978
Sevastopol, Soviet Union
NationalityUkrainian
Other namesАнтон Владимирович Шеховцов
OccupationAcademic
Academic background
Alma materSevastopol National Technical University
University College London
Academic work
DisciplinePolitical Science
Main interestsFar-right movements in Europe, Neo-Eurasianism
Websiteshekhovtsov.org

Anton Volodymyrovich Shekhovtsov (Ukrainian: Антон Володимирович Шеховцов; Russian: Антон Владимирович Шеховцов; born 1978) is a Ukrainian political scientist, academic and writer. He is known for his writings on the European radical right and in particular its connections to Russia. He is the editor of the Explorations of the Far Right book series at ibidem-Verlag and sits on the board of the open access journal Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies.

Background

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Shekhovtsov was born in 1978 in Sevastopol,[1] then in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union. He studied English philology at the Sevastopol National Technical University between 1995 and 2000, going on to teach business English at the European University in Kyiv between 2000 until 2002. He returned to his alma mater to complete an aspirantura in Political Science between 2006 and 2009, and lectured there until 2010.

In the United Kingdom

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Between 2010 and 2012 Shekhovtsov had two stints as a visiting fellow researcher at the University of Northampton, as part of the Radicalism and New Media Research Group. He then went on to complete a PhD in Slavonic and East European studies at University College London between 2013 and 2017.

Works

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Shekhovtsov's works have been featured on/at OpenDemocracy[2], the Chatham House,[3] Foreign Affairs[4], the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs[5] and the Aspen Institute.[6]

Bibliography

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  • Radical Russian Nationalism: Structures, Ideas, Persons (2009) with Aleksandr Verkhovsky and Galina Kozhevnikova
  • New Radical Right-Wing Parties in European Democracies: Determinants of Electoral Support (2011)
  • White Power Music: Scenes of Extreme-Right Cultural Resistance (2012) with Paul Jackson
  • The Postwar Anglo-American Far Right: A Special Relationship of Hate (2014) with Paul Jackson[7]
  • Russia and the Western Far Right: Tango Noir (2017)[8][9]
  • The Rise and Fall of a Polish Agent of the Kremlin Influence: The Case of Janusz Niedźwiecki (2022)[10]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Anton Shekhovtsov". Eurozine. 14 July 2017. Retrieved July 15, 2017.
  2. ^ "Anton Shekhovtsov". openDemocracy. 14 July 2017. Retrieved July 15, 2017.
  3. ^ "Anton Shekhovtsov". Chatham House. 14 July 2017. Retrieved July 15, 2017.
  4. ^ "Anton Shekhovtsov". Foreign Affairs. 14 July 2017. Retrieved July 15, 2017.
  5. ^ "Anton Shekhovtsov". Carnegie Council. 14 July 2017. Retrieved July 15, 2017.
  6. ^ "Anton Shekhovtsov". Aspen Institute. 14 July 2017. Retrieved July 15, 2017.
  7. ^ Shaffer, Ryan (2018). "The Post-War Anglo-American Far Right: A Special Relationship of Hate. Edited by Paul Jackson and Anton Shekhovtsov. Palgrave Macmillan. 2014. xii + 155pp. $64.00". History. 103 (354): 189–190. doi:10.1111/1468-229X.12565.
  8. ^ Droalin, Rodolphe (2018). "Anton Shekhovtsov, Russia and the Western Far Right". Revue d'études comparatives Est-Ouest. 3 (3): 135–141. doi:10.3917/receo1.493.0135.
  9. ^ Kuzio, Taras (2018). "Russia and the Western Far Right. Tango Noir". Europe-Asia Studies. 70 (10): 1715–1717. doi:10.1080/09668136.2018.1543971. S2CID 158236745.
  10. ^ "The Rise and Fall of a Polish Agent of the Kremlin Influence". Centre for Democratic Integrity. Retrieved 2023-07-05.
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