Russian nationalism : imaginaries, doctrines, and political battlefields / Marlene Laruelle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Laruelle, Marlène, author.

Series:

BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European Studies.

BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nationalism--Former Soviet republics.

Nationalism.

Russia (Federation)--Politics and government--1991-.

Russia (Federation).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages).

Edition:

1 ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2019.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book, by one of the foremost authorities on the subject, explores the complex nature of Russian nationalism. It examines nationalism as a multilayered and multifaceted repertoire displayed by a myriad of actors. It considers nationalism as various concepts and ideas emphasizing Russia's distinctive national character, based on the country's geography, history, Orthodoxy, and Soviet technological advances. It analyzes the ideologies of Russia's ultra-nationalist and far-right groups, explores the use of nationalism in the conflict with Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea, and discusses how Putin's political opponents, including Alexei Navalny, make use of nationalism. Overall the book provides a rich analysis of a key force which is profoundly affecting political and societal developments both inside Russia and beyond.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of Tables

Introduction

A brief history of "Russian nationalism" studies

Russian nationalism studies today: context and directions

The book

Notes

Part I: Nationalism as imperial imaginary: Cosmos, geography, and ancient past

Chapter 1: Cosmism: Russian messianism at a time of technological modernity

The genesis of Cosmist thinking: a contextualization

The founding fathers: from Christian exegesis to the conquest of space

Cosmism, a paradoxical reading of the occult

Chapter 2: Larger, higher, farther north ...: Russia's geographical metanarratives

Larger: Eurasia as a metanarrative of the empire

Higher: from geography to the conquest of space

Farther north: the Arctic as the last territory to conquer

Chapter 3: Alternate history and New Chronology: Rewriting Russia's past

Can history be fiction? Alternate history as commercial success

Alternate anti-Semitic history: the classic pattern of Jewish conspiracy

A textbook of alternate history: Fomenko's New Chronology

Part II: Nationalism as doctrine: Experimenting with new repertoires

Chapter 4: Beyond Slavophilism: The rise of Aryanism and neo-paganism

The Soviet era: the unknown matrix of Aryanism and neo-paganism?

Revamping an old myth: Russia as the Aryan cradle

Russians as Aryans: the return of race theories

Rodnoverie: worldview and faith

Esoteric concepts and practices

Chapter 5: A textbook case of doctrinal entrepreneurship: Aleksandr Dugin

Nativizing fascism for a Russian audience

Rediscovering Russophile fascism

Rescuing fascism as a political ideology

Fascism 2.0: the "fourth political theory"

A large array of fascism-derived doctrinal elements.

Dugin as a theoretician of Aryanness

Promoting the iconic philosophical figures of Nazism

The tabula rasa principle: legitimizing apocalyptical violence

Paramilitary training for young Eurasianists

Calls for a white, unified Europe and links with the US Alt-Right

Dugin: mainstream or marginal?

Chapter 6: Pamiat 2.0? The Izborskii Club, or the new conservative avant-garde

Encapsulating Russia's ideological evolution

The Club's ideological genesis

The Club's political networks

The need for a unifying metanarrative ... and its partia lfailure

The long-awaited Red-and-White reconciliation?

The dilemma of imperialism and ethnonationalism

Prokhanov's touch: reintegrating the economy into the debate on the nation

Part III: Nationalism as political battle field: In the streets, for or against the Kremlin

Chapter 7: Black shirts, White Power: The changing faces of the far right

Old-fashioned fascism as the answer to the Soviet collapse

The first black shirts: Barkashov's Russian National Unity

National Bolsheviks: when punk meets Mussolini

The structuring of White Power à la russe

The rise and collapse of the skinhead scene

The rise of violent "migrantophobia"

The Russian authorities' response to White Power violence

Chapter 8: Aleksei Navalny and the Natsdem: A pro-Western nationalism?

The kaleidoscope of the Natsdem movement

Precursors to the Natsdem movement

Aleksei Shiropaev: Europe's democracy, federalism, and pagan identity

Konstantin Krylov: nationalism before democracy

Vladimir Milov: Russia's liberalism should become Russian

Navalny's political trajectory

Navalny's ideological inconsistencies on the national question

Russia as a "Russkii" national state

The North Caucasians as "foreign" to Russia

An assumed anti-migrant policy.

Articulating "nationalism," "democracy," and "liberalism"

Chapter 9: The three colors of Novorossiya, or the mythmaking of the Ukrainian war

A brief history of "Novorossiya"

Red Novorossiya: consolidating Russia's great-powerness

Crafting Red Novorossiya: the role of the Izborskii Club

A new "large Russia" in the making

Novorossiya as new socialist Russia

White Novorossiya: building an Orthodox theocracy

A shade of Romanov nostalgia

A Black Hundreds-style revival?

Orthodox "adventurism": the figure of Konstantin Malofeev

Brown Novorossiya: exporting the neo-fascist revolution

The long-awaited "Russian Spring"

The myth of the RNE renaissance

The neo-Naziinternational fighting in Donbas

References

Index.

Notes:

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-429-42677-1

0-429-76198-8

0-429-76199-6

9780429426773

OCLC:

1061148107

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429426773

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access