Esotericism and Politics in Early Post-Soviet Russia: Forms of Political Participation
The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture May 1, 2023 Анна Ожиганова, Anna Tessmann
The political orientation and participation of esoteric groups and movements remain under-researched and restricted by many stereotypes. There is an oversimplifying tendency to classify all esoteric groups as extreme right-wing and proto-fascist or, by contrast, as counter-cultural, left-wing, anti-authoritarian, and progressive. An equally persistent stereotype, often expressed by insiders, is...