Oleg Platonov

Oleg Anatolyevich Platonov (Russian: Оле́г Анато́льевич Плато́нов; born 11 January 1950) is a contemporary Russian writer, historian, and economist. He is the Director General of the Institute for the History of Russian Civilization, a Moscow-based think tank.[1]

He has been described as ultranationalist, anti-Semitic,[2][3][4][5][6] and a Holocaust denier.[7]

Biography

Platonov was born in Yekaterinburg, Russia, then known as Sverdlovsk. In 1972 he graduated from the Moscow College of Consumer Cooperation. Platonov has worked in the international department of TsSU and, since 1977, in the Institute for Labor. In 1995 he organized a research institution Russian Civilization. He lived 7 months in the United States then returned to Russia. Platonov has published the encyclopedic dictionary Holy Rus' and four volumes of the Holy Rus'. The Great Encyclopedia of Russian People (out of a proposed twenty volumes). In that work, he praises the civilization of "Holy Rus'″ which, however, has been undermined since 17th century by various foreign elements ("чужебесия″) - forerunners of 'Jewish-Masonic plotters' that in Platonov's opinion organized the Russian revolution.[8] Though Platonov holds the Bolshevik regime responsible for 87 million lives, he argues Joseph Stalin made "the first step toward the salvation of Russia from Jewish Bolshevism.″[8]

Since 2003, Platonov's encyclopedia publishing center was transformed into the independent think tank 'Institute for the History of Russian Civilization' (short name 'Russian Institute'), whose goal is stated as research and dissemination of the ideas of Metropolitan Ioann of St. Petersburg and Ladoga (Ivan Snychev) (1927–1995)[9][10] with Platonov as the Institute's Director General.[1]

In his work The History of the Russian People in the Twentieth Century, Platonov treats the February and October revolutions of 1917 as handiwork of Judæo-Masonic conspirators, the agents of the Entente and of the German Empire. Similarly, he regards the leaders of Ukrainian and Baltic independence movements as spies and German agents.[11]

Platonov's views on Holocaust

A review in the Journal of Historical Review of a special issue of Russky Vestnik on Holocaust revisionism quotes Platonov as follows:

Russian historian Dr. Oleg A. Platonov writes of the "myth of the 'Holocaust', namely, that six million Jews were allegedly put to death in gas chambers during the Second World War. "This myth, he continues, "has taken hold in the mass mind with particular force,"with the aim of encouraging non-Jews to "feel a sense of guilt, repent and pay restitution."[12]

Reception

The Russian statesman and human rights activist Alexander Brod,[13] writer and historian Semyon Reznik,[14] and the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia [15] regard Platonov's works as antisemitic. Reznik also notes that Platonov is one of the main promoters of the blood libel.[16]

Works

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Об институте". Website of the Institute for the History of Russian Civilization (Russian)
  2. ↑ http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=99
  3. ↑ http://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/?ad=048&sh=story&story=20507
  4. ↑ http://www.axt.org.uk/antisem/countries/russia/russia.htm
  5. ↑ http://www.tau.ac.il/Anti-Semitism/asw2005/russia.htm
  6. ↑ http://www.antisemitism.org.il/eng/events/14907/Russia-AntisemiticLiteratureonSaleInsideRussianParliament
  7. ↑ Stella Rock (a research fellow at the University of Sussex) Russian revisionism: Holocaust denial and the new nationalist historiography, L'Association des Anciens Amateurs de Récits de Guerres et d'Holocaustes, initially presented at the one-day seminar ‘Old prejudice—new agenda?’, Centre for German-Jewish Studies, December 2000.
  8. 1 2 James H. Billington (19 March 2004). Russia in Search of Itself. Woodrow Wilson Center Press. pp. 85–. ISBN 978-0-8018-7976-0.
  9. ↑ Ioann (Snychev) (1927-1995), Metropolitan of St. Petersburg and Ladoga 1990-1995, The Encyclopedia of Saint Petersburg.
  10. ↑ Ioann (Russian religious leader), Britannica Encyclopedia.
  11. ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=eLqVMOmEsisC&pg=PA216&lpg=PA216&dq=%22Oleg+Platonov%22+religious+nationalists&source=bl&ots=XNJnxXzlrr&sig=WoS-fPkRm0XYMTRAXo3EiJfbwRE&hl=en&ei=IwEeSorgLJSQmAeE5pjHBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#PPA217,M1
  12. ↑ "A Major Revisionist Breakthrough in Russia", Journal of Historical Review
  13. ↑ В России начали составлять список запрещенных книг (Russian)
  14. ↑ Вперед к людоедству! (Russian)
  15. ↑ Антисемитская литература на международной книжной ярмарке (Russian)
  16. ↑ Semyon Reznik,"The Nazification of Russia: Antisemitism in the Post-Soviet Era", Challenge Publications (VA) (December 1996), # ISBN 0-9651360-8-6, # ISBN 978-0-9651360-8-2

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