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Victor A. Shnirelman “Threshold of Tolerance:” Ideology and Practice of the New Racism. In two vols. Moscow: NLO, 2011 Vol. 1 - 552 pp., Vol.. 2 - 848 pp. ill. (in Russian)Шнирельман В.А. «Порог толерантности»: Идеология и практика нового расизм. В 2-х томах. М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2011. — Т.1— 552 с.: ил. / Т.2 — 856 с.: ил. ISBN 978-5-86793-874-1V. A. Shnirelman, Moscow based anthropologist and specialist  on racism, discrimination and far right movements, has just published a new book on racism. The book is published by NLO http://nlobooks.mags.ru/ncd-1-1-139/news.htmlThe book offers a complete overview of new theorizations and discussions  on racism all over the world. Special chapters are dedicated to those  problems in Russian contemporary society. it can be also used as a  textbook for students.ContentsIntroductionPart I. Races and racismChapter 1. What is racism?Chapter 2. Racism or racisms?Chapter 3. Origins and evolution of racismChapter 4. Hard struggle against racismChapter 5. Race in contemporary scienceChapter 6. UNO and UNESCO declarations on race and racismChapter 7. What do “races” mean in various countries?Chapter 8. Racism changes its faceChapter 9. New Right and “cultural racism”Chapter 10. Immigrants, globalization and “cultural racism”Chapter 11. “New racism” in the USAPart II. Ethno-racial ideologies in RussiaChapter 1. Pre-Soviet sources of biological determinismChapter 2. Soviet anthropologists against racismChapter 3. From class struggle to ethnic discriminationChapter 4. From ethnicization to racialization: legacy of the Soviet scholarshipChapter 5. Traps and dangers of culture-centrismChapter 6. Biologization of ethnicity and “national character”Chapter 7. Racial discourse in society and in politicsChapter 8. Civilizational approach and xenophobiaPart III. Anti-immigrant attitudes and racism Chapter 1. Post-Soviet migrations and migrantsChapter 2. The Kuban’ approachChapter 3. Social alarms and discriminationChapter 4. Ethnicity and criminalityChapter 5. Explosions, pogroms and ethnic cleansingChapter 6. Crisis of 2008-2009 and migration issueChapter 7. “Old racism” is coming backPart IV. Opinion polls and their resultsChapter 1. The triumph of ethnicityChapter 2. Xenophobia and its trajectoryChapter 3. Anti-Caucasian attitudesChapter 4. Media’s roleChapter 5. Willing for discriminationChapter 6. Growth of neo-conservatism and anti-WesternismChapter 7. Identity and xenophobiaChapter 8. ConclusionsPart V. SkinheadsChapter 1. In the beginningChapter 2. Political supportChapter 3. Cult of violence and its buildersChapter 4. Skin-culture and its developmentChapter 5. Skinheads and their sympathizersChapter 6. Media and migrantsChapter 7. Skinheads and authoritiesChapter 8. Aryan ideology and skinheads’ identityChapter 9. Football fans, skinheads and the policeChapter 10. “Race war” in the citiesChapter 11. The police response and activity of the right radicalsChapter 12. ConclusionsConclusions. Contemporary xenophobia and reasons for itNotesBibliographyIndexList of illustrations