Victor Alexandrovich Schnirelmann (, b. 18 May 1949,

Moscow Moscow is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, standing on the Moskva (river), Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population estimated at over 13 million residents with ...

; frequently spelled Shnirelman in his English-language publications) is a Russian historian, ethnologist and a member of

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(since 1998). He is a senior researcher of N. N. Miklukho-Maklai Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology at the

Russian Academy of Sciences The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation; and additional scientific and social units such ...

and an author of over 300 works, including over 20 monographies on

archaeology Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of Artifact (archaeology), artifacts, architecture, biofact (archaeology), biofacts or ecofacts, ...

. Schnirelmann's main fields include the ideologies of

nationalism Nationalism is an idea or movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state. As a movement, it presupposes the existence and tends to promote the interests of a particular nation, Smith, Anthony. ''Nationalism: Theory, I ...

in Russia and CIS,

ethnocentrism Ethnocentrism in social science and anthropology—as well as in colloquial English discourse—means to apply one's own culture or ethnicity as a frame of reference to judge other cultures, practices, behaviors, beliefs, and people, instead o ...

and

irredentism Irredentism () is one State (polity), state's desire to Annexation, annex the territory of another state. This desire can be motivated by Ethnicity, ethnic reasons because the population of the territory is ethnically similar to or the same as the ...

. Schnirelmann graduated from historical faculty at

Moscow State University Moscow State University (MSU), officially M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University,. is a public university, public research university in Moscow, Russia. The university includes 15 research institutes, 43 faculties, more than 300 departments, a ...

in 1971 and in 1977 upheld a thesis in the Ethnography Institute of Soviet Academy of Sciences. In 1990, he defended a thesis in Ethnology and Anthropology Institute.

Selected works

*Who gets the past? Competition for ancestors among non-Russian intellectuals in Russia. Washington D. C., Baltimore & London: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. *The Myth of the Khazars and Intellectual Antisemitism in Russia, 1970s – 1990s. Jerusalem: The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2002.

Bibliography

«Чистильщики московских улиц»: скинхеды, СМИ и общественное мнение.
М.: Academia, 2007. 116 стр. * Национализм в мировой истории / под ред. В. А. Тишкова и В. А. Шнирельмана. М.: Наука, 2007. 604 стр. * Быть аланами. Интеллектуалы и политика на Северном Кавказе в XX веке. М.: НЛО, 2006. 690 стр. * Очерки современного расизма. Петрозаводск: Скандинавия, 2006. 64 стр. * Лица ненависти (антисемиты и расисты на марше). М.: Academia, 2005. 360 стр. * Интеллектуальные лабиринты. Очерки идеологий в современной России. М.: Academia, 2004. 480 стр. * Войны памяти: мифы, идентичность и политика в Закавказье. М.: ИКЦ Академкнига, 2003. 592 стр. * The Myth of the Khazars and Intellectual Antisemitism in Russia, 1970s — 1990s. Jerusalem: The Vidal Sassoon *International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2002. 200 pp. * Неоязычество на просторах Евразии / под ред. В. А. Шнирельмана. М.: Библейско-Богословский Институт, 2001. 177 стр. * The Value of the Past. Myths, Identity and Politics in Transcaucasia. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology (Senri Ethnological Studies, № 57), 2001. 465 pp. * Who gets the past? Competition for ancestors among non-Russian intellectuals in Russia. Washington D. C., Baltimore & London: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. 98 pp. * Война и мир в ранней истории человечества. В 2 тт. М.: Институт этнологии и антропологии РАН, 1994 (совместно с А. И. Першицем и Ю. И. Семеновым). * Возникновение производящего хозяйства. М.: Наука, 1989. 448 стр. * Отдельные главы в кн.: История первобытного общества. Т. 1-3. М., Наука, 1983—1988. * Происхождение скотоводства. М., Наука, 1980. 333 стр. * * ''Шнирельман В. А.'
«Цепной пес расы»: диванная расология как защитница «белого человека»
* ''Шнирельман В. А.'

* ''Шнирельман В. А.'

* ''Шнирельман В. А.'' [http://www.antirasizm.ru/publ_027.php «Светлые арийцы» и «посланцы темных сил»: заметки об особенностях современной антисемитской и расистской пропаганды] * * ''Шнирельман В. А.'
Российская школа и национальная идея
* ''Шнирельман В. А.'

Reviews

* ''Гутнов Ф.'
Тяжело быть аланом? (рецензия на книгу В. А. Шнирельмана «Быть аланами. Интеллектуалы и политика на Северном Кавказе в XX веке.»
* '' Напольских В.'
Заметки на полях: Неоязычество на просторах Евразии
// Вестник Евразии / Acta Eurasica. №1. Москва, 2002. * ''Чочиев А.'

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