Monografiya posvyashchena analizu ideologii regionalistskikh i etnonatsionalisticheskikh dvizheniy v razlichnykh rossiyskikh regionakh. Osoboe vnimanie udeleno analizu ideynykh pozitsiy i politicheskikh praktik etnicheskikh dvizheniy v tekh regionakh Rossii, gde traditsionno prozhivayut finno-ugry. Rassmatrivayutsya bazovye osnovy ideologii etnicheskogo natsionalizma na primere ideynykh postroeniy finno-ugorskikh obshchestvennykh ob"edineniy i konkretnye formy proyavleniya etoy ideologii v obshchestvennoy i politicheskoy zhizni. Raskryvaetsya i analiziruetsya transformatsiya ideynykh pozitsiy i ustanovok etnonatsional'nykh organizatsiy i ikh liderov, dokazyvaetsya, chto eta ideologiya obrashchena v proshloe i ee sotsial'nym idealom yavlyayutsya nemodernizirovannye soobshchestva. V tsentre ideologii nakhoditsya ideya gruppovykh prav i osobogo statusa titul'nykh etnicheskikh grupp, a takzhe pryamoe protivopostavlenie etnichnosti i grazhdanstva.