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. 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.″
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) with Platonov as the Institute's Director General.
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.
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