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

• Superior document: BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European Studies
• VerfasserIn: Laruelle, Marlène,
• Place / Publishing House: Abingdon, Oxon : : Routledge,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European Studies.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (257 pages).

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.

Table of 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 -- Notes -- 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 -- Notes -- 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 -- Notes -- 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 -- Notes -- 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? -- Notes -- 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 -- Notes -- 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 -- Notes -- 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" -- Notes -- 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 -- Notes -- References -- Index.