Russia Before and After Crimea (eBook, ePUB)

Nationalism and Identity, 2010-17
Redaktion: Kolsto, Pal; Blakkisrud, Helge

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 marked a watershed in post-Cold War European history and brought East-West relations to a low. At the same time, by selling this fateful action in starkly nationalist language, the Putin regime achieved record-high popularity. This book shows how, after the large-scale 2011-2013 anti-Putin demonstrations in major Russian cities and the parallel rise in xenophobia related to the Kremlin's perceived inability to deal with the influx of Central Asian labour migrants, the annexation of Crimea generated strong 'rallying around the nation' and 'rallying around the leader' effects. The contributors to this collection go beyond the news headlines to focus on overlooked aspects of Russian society such as intellectual racism and growing xenophobia. These developments are contextualised with an overview of Russian nationalism: state-led, grassroots and the tensions between the two.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474433884
• Artikelnr.: 72413007

Autorenporträt

Pål Kolstø is Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Oslo. He has authored two books and a number of articles and book chapters on Russian politics, Russian history and nationalism. Previously, he was Researcher at the Norwegian Defence Institute, 1987-90, and Interpreter at the Norwegian-Soviet border, 1982-83. His main research areas are nationalism, nation-building, ethnic conflicts, nationality policy in Russia, the former Soviet Union and the Western Balkans. He has published roughly 40 articles in English-language refereed journals, in addition to numerous publications in other languages. He is the recipient of six large research grants to study nation-building and ethnic relations in the post-Soviet world and the former Eastern Europe. Helge Blakkisrud is the Head of the Research Group on Russia, Eurasia and the Arctic, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. His main research areas are federalism and centre-region relations in the Russian Federation, nationalism and nation-building in Russia and Eurasia, including in Eurasian de facto states. He is editor in chief of Nordisk Østforum, the Nordic journal for East European and Eurasian Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of tables
Notes on contributors
Preface
Introduction: Exploring Russian nationalisms
Pål Kolstø and Helge Blakkisrud
Part I Official nationalism
1. Contemporary Russian nationalism in the historical struggle between
'official nationality' and 'popular sovereignty'
Emil Pain
2. Imperial and ethnic nationalism: A dilemma of the Russian elite
Eduard Ponarin and Michael Komin
3. Kremlin's post-2012 national policies: Encountering the merits and
perils of identity-based social contract
Yuri Teper
4. Sovereignty and Russian national identity-making: The biopolitical
dimension 129
Andrey Makarychev and Alexandra Yatsyk
Part II Radical and other societal nationalisms
5. Revolutionary nationalism in Contemporary Russia
Alexandra Kuznetsova and Sergey Sergeev
6. The Russian nationalist movement at low ebb
Alexander Verkhovsky
7. Ideologue of neo-Nazi terror: Aleksandr Sevastianov and Russia's
'partisan' insurgency
Robert Horvath
8. The extreme right fringe of Russian nationalism and the Ukraine
conflict: The National Socialist Initiative
Sofia Tipaldou
Part III Identities and otherings
9. 'Restore Moscow to the Muscovites': Othering 'the migrants' in the 2013
Moscow mayoral elections
Helge Blakkisrud and Pål Kolstø
10. Anti-migrant, but not nationalist: Pursuing statist legitimacy through
immigration discourse and policy
Caress Schenk
11. Everyday patriotism and ethnicity in today's Russia
J. Paul Goode
12. Identity in Crimea before annexation: A bottom-up perspective
Eleanor Knott
Index