Date: Sun, 16 Jul 1995 18:24:43 -0600 (MDT)
Subject: Russian anthropologists condemn racism (fwd)




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Date: Sun, 16 Jul 1995 19:32:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: Steve Rosenthal <MDR-AT-borg.evms.edu>
To: Racial-Religious-EthnoNationalist Violence Studies
     <revs-AT-csf.colorado.edu>
Subject: Russian anthropologists condemn racism

The current (7/7/95) issue of Science reports that at the first national 
congress of the Association of Russian Ethnologists and 
Anthropologists in Ryazan last month, delegates unanimously 
adopted a resolution condemning the growth of racial intolerance and 
xenophobia.  The resolution called on their colleagues "resolutely to 
oppose in their daily academic, practical, and teaching work any 
attempt to sow ethnic and racial hatred. (p. 27)
   The article goes on to explain that the resolution was in part a 
response to the neo-Nazi views and apologetics of Viktor Kozlov and 
Viktor Bezverkhy.  The former has been defending the latter, who has 
argued that Jews, gypsies, and people of mixed race are inferior and 
have no place in a socially organized society.  The struggle has been 
carried into the pages of Izvestiya and Moscow News, and Russian 
anthropologists have urged their colleagues in the West to join in 
condemning racist and fascist Russian anthropologists and their 
supporters.
   If there are any Russian social scientists or friends of Russian 
anthropologists on this network, perhaps they can further investigate 
this struggle and report on it.
   Steve Rosenthal



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