Black Wind, White Snow : The Rise of Russia's New Nationalism / Charles Clover.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clover, Charles, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1952---Political and social views.

Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich.

Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1952---Friends and associates.

Eurasian school.

Nationalism--Russia (Federation).

Nationalism.

Political culture--Russia (Federation).

Political culture.

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

Russia (Federation).

Russia (Federation)--Foreign relations--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (391 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A fascinating study of the root motivations behind the political activities and philosophies of Putin's government in Russia Charles Clover, award-winning journalist and former Moscow bureau chief for the Financial Times, here analyses the idea of ";Eurasianism,"; a theory of Russian national identity based on ethnicity and geography. Clover traces Eurasianism's origins in the writings of White Russian exiles in 1920s Europe, through Siberia's Gulag archipelago in the 1950s, the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, and up to its steady infiltration of the governing elite around Vladimir Putin. This eye-opening analysis pieces together the evidence for Eurasianism's place at the heart of Kremlin thinking today and explores its impact on recent events, the annexation of Crimea, the rise in Russia of anti-Western paranoia and imperialist rhetoric, as well as Putin's sometimes perplexing political actions and ambitions. Based on extensive research and dozens of interviews with Putin's close advisers, this quietly explosive story will be essential reading for anyone concerned with Russia's past century, and its future.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Map of Eurasia

Preface

Introduction

1. The most boring adventure ever

2. The short summer

3. Family trees

4. Coals to Newcastle

5. Requiem

6. The 'Big House'

7. Gulag

8. A Soviet Virgil

9. Paris 1990

10. Satan's ball

11. Heartland

12. The chess piece

13. Political technology

14. Wag the dog

15. Export of the passionaries

Notes

Select bibliography

Illustration credits

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

0-300-22394-3

OCLC:

1149406733