New Russian Nationalism

Pål Kolstø is Professor Emeritus of Russian and Post-Soviet Studies at the University of Oslo Helge Blakkisrud is Associate Professor of Russian Area Studies at the University of Oslo

A long-overdue analysis of contemporary Russian nationalism that not only discusses everyday xenophobia but also links the issue of nationalism with great-power ambitions and the Ukraine crisis (Chapters 2, 3 and 7)… The editors succeeded in bringing together a range of expert authors to contribute on different facets of nationalism, ranging from ethnic minority perception (Chapter 5, Chapter 11) and nationalist tendencies in foreign policy (Chapter 7) to religion (Chapter 4) and economic considerations in nationalism (Chapter 12)… The book’s contribution to the field is unquestionable.

• List of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Russian nationalism is back – but precisely what does that mean? Pål Kolstø1. The ethnification of Russian nationalism, Pål Kolstø2. The imperial syndrome and its influence on Russian nationalism, Emil Pain3. Radical nationalists from the start of Medvedev’s presidency to the war in Donbas – true till death? Alexander Verkhovsky4. Russian ethnic nationalism and religion today, Nastasia Mitrofanova5. Everyday nationalism in Russia in European context: Moscow residents’ perceptions of ethnic minority migrants and migration, Natalya Kosmarskaya and Igor Savin6. Backing the USSR 2.0: Russia’s ethnic minorities and expansionist ethnic Russian nationalism, Mikhail Alexseev7. Rallying ’round the leader more than the flag: changes in Russian nationalist public opinion 2013–14, Mikhail A. Alexseev and Henry E. Hale8. How nationalism and machine politics mix in Russia, Henry E. Hale9. Blurring the boundary between civic and ethnic: the Kremlin’s new approach to national identity under Putin’s third term, Helge Blakkisrud10. Russia as an anti-liberal European civilisation, Marlene Laruelle11. Ethnicity and nationhood on Russian state-aligned television: contextualising geopolitical crisis, Stephen Hutchings and Vera Tolz12. The place of economics in Russian national identity debates, Peter RutlandBibliographyIndex