1st Edition

Russian Nationalism and the National Reassertion of Russia

Edited By Marlene Laruelle Copyright 2009
304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

304 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Military action in South Ossetia, growing tensions with the United States and NATO, and Russia's relationship with the European Union demonstrate how the issue of Russian nationalism is increasingly at the heart of the international political agenda.This book considers a wide range of aspects of Russian nationalism, focussing on the Putin period. It discusses the development of Russian... Read more

List of Tables and Figures. Preface - John B. Dunlop 1. Introduction - Marlène Laruelle Part I: Historical And Conceptual Issues In The Study Of Russian Nationalism 2. Rethinking Russian Nationalism: Historical Continuity, Political Diversity, and Doctrinal Fragmentation - Marlène Laruelle 3. Stalinism And Russian Nationalism: A Reconceptualization - Veljko Vujacic 4. Concepts of Fascism in Contemporary Russia and The West - Andreas Umland Part II. The "Far Right" And "New Right": ideological recompositions 5. Future Prospects of Contemporary Russian Nationalism - Alexander Verkhovsky 6. Dugin and the Eurasian Controversy: is Eurasianism "Patriotic?" - Wayne Allensworth  Part III. Intellectual and Sociological Niches Of Contemporary Russian Nationalism 7. New Racism, ‘Clash of Civilizations’, and Russia - Victor Shnirelman 8. Electoral Choice, Cultural Capital, and Xenophobic Attitudes in Russia (1994-2006) - Anastassia Leonova 9. Fear has Wide Eyes: why do Russians see some migrant minorities as more numerous than others? - Mikhail A. Alexseev Part IV. Construction of an Official Patriotism: in search of a new ideology? 10. From Belgrade to Kiev: The hard-line nationalism and Russia’s foreign policy - Andrei P. Tsygankov 11. A Religion for the Nation or a Nation for the Religion? Putin’s Third Way for Russia - Beth Admiraal 12. Making the Public Patriotic: militarism and anti-militarism in Russia - Valerie Sperling The authors Index

Biography

Marlène Laruelle is a Senior Research Fellow in the Central Asia and Caucasus Institute of the School for Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University, USA. She has published widely, including most recently Russian Eurasianism: An Ideology of Empire.