Michael Kellogg, The Russian Roots of Nazism: White Emigres and the Making of National Socialism, 1917-1945 (Book Review)

Michael Kellogg, The Russian Roots of Nazism: White Emigres and the Making Of National Socialism, 1917-1945. 327 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. ISBN 0521845122. $80.00; eBook $64.00. Michael Kellogg's book examines the contribution of Russian emigres to the formation of Nazi ideology as well as the cooperation of far-right Russian emigres in Germany with the Nazis. The author pays special attention to the Russian-German society Aufbau (Reconstruction), with which Adolf Hitler collaborated between 1920 and 1923. Chapter 4 is dedicated to Aufbau (10935), but other parts of the book also touch on the subject. Among the leading figures of Aufbau were the Baltic German emigres Max Scheubner-Richter, Arno Schickedanz, Alfred Rosenberg, and Otto von Kursell; the Russian emigres General Vladimir Viktorovich Biskupskii, Fedor Viktorovich Vinberg, Petr Nikolaevich Shabel'skii-Bork, and Sergei Vladimirovich Taboritskii; and the "Ukrainian Cossack" Ivan Poltavets-Ostranitsa.