Russian Nationalism, Foreign Policy and Identity Debates in Putin's Russia

New Ideological Patterns after the Orange Revolution
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-3-8382-0325-6
Verlag: ibidem

Buch, Englisch, Band 108, 160 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society

This work discusses the new conjunctions that have emerged between foreign policy events and politicized expressions of Russian nationalism since 2005. The war with Georgia, as well as conflicts with Ukraine and other East European countries over the memory of the Soviet Union, and the Russian interpretation of the 2005 French riots have all contributed to reinforcing narratives of Russia as a fortress against aggressive forces in the West and CIS. This narrative has found support both in state structures and among the larger public. It has been especially salient for some nationalist youth movements, including both pro-Kremlin organizations, such as Nashi, and the skinheads. These various actors each had their own specific agendas, employ different modes of public action, and receive unequal recognition from other segments of society. Yet many of them share their reading of certain foreign policy events with that of various state structures. These and related phenomena are thoroughly analyzed and contextualized in this book.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Laruelle, Marlène

Weitere Mitwirkende

Umland, Andreas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Nationalismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, by Marlène Laruelle
1. Is Nationalism Rising in Russian Foreign Policy? The Case of Georgia, by Luke March
2. History, Memory and National Identity: Understanding the Politics of History and Memory Wars in Post-Soviet Lands, by Igor Torbakov
3. Negotiating History: Memory Wars in the Near Abroad and the Pro-Kremlin Youth Movements, by Marlène Laruelle
4. Making Sense of Nashi's Political Style: The Bronze Soldier and the Counter-Orange Community, by Jussi Lassila
5. Russian Radical Nationalist Interpretation of the French Riots of November 2005, by Lukasz Jurczyszyn

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Marlène Laruelle is Research Professor of International Affairs at The Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, George Washington University. She received her PhD from the National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations in Paris, and was a Visiting Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2005-2006) as well as Senior Research Fellow at SAIS, Johns Hopkins University (2007-2011), at Washington, DC. Her most recent monographs and edited volumes include, among others, In the Name of the Nation: Nationalism and Politics in Contemporary Russia (Palgrave, 2009), Russian Nationalism and the National Reassertion of Russia (Routledge, 2009), Russian Eurasianism: An Ideology of Empire (Woodrow Wilson Press/Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008), and Sovremennye interpretatsii russkogo natsionalizma (Ibidem, 2007).