Russian nationalism imaginaries, doctrines, and political battlefields
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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Abingdon, Oxon :
Taylor & Francis
2019
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| Series: | BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European Studies.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009421112406719 |
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.
