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

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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 di...

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Superior document:BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European Studies
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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).
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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.

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