Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Tables x
5. Acknowledgements xi
6. Contributors xii
7. Introduction: Russian nationalism is back – but precisely what does that mean? 1
8. 1 The ethnification of Russian nationalism 18
9. 2 The imperial syndrome and its influence on Russian nationalism 46
10. 3 Radical nationalists from the start of Medvedev’s presidency to the war in Donbas: True till death? 75
11. 4 Russian ethnic nationalism and religion today 104
12. 5 Everyday nationalism in Russia in European context: Moscow residents’ perceptions of ethnic minority migrants and migration 132
13. 6 Backing the USSR 2.0: Russia’s ethnic minorities and expansionist ethnic Russian nationalism 160
14. 7 Rallying ’round the leader more than the flag: Changes in Russian nationalist public opinion 2013–14 192
15. 8 How nationalism and machine politics mix in Russia 221
16. 9 Blurring the boundary between civic and ethnic: The Kremlin’s new approach to national identity under Putin’s third term 249
17. 10 Russia as an anti-liberal European civilisation 275
18. 11 Ethnicity and nationhood on Russian state-aligned television: Contextualising geopolitical crisis 298
19. 12 The place of economics in Russian national identity debates 336
20. Bibliography 362
21. Index 407