Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Tables viii
5. Notes on Contributors ix
6. Preface xvii
7. Introduction: Exploring Russian nationalisms 1
8. Part I. Official nationalism
9. 1. Contemporary Russian nationalism in the historical struggle between ‘offi cial nationality’ and ‘popular sovereignty’ 21
10. 2. Imperial and ethnic nationalism: A dilemma of the Russian elite 50
11. 3. Kremlin’s post-2012 national policies: Encountering the merits and perils of identity-based social contract 68
12. 4. Sovereignty and Russian national identity-making: The biopolitical dimension 93
13. Part II. Radical and other societal nationalisms
14. 5. Revolutionary nationalism in Contemporary Russia 117
15. 6. The Russian nationalist movement at low ebb 142
16. 7. Ideologue of neo-Nazi terror: Aleksandr Sevastianov and Russia’s ‘partisan’ insurgency 163
17. 8. The extreme right fringe of Russian nationalism and the Ukraine conflict: The National Socialist Initiative 187
18. Part III. Identities and otherings
19. 9. ‘Restore Moscow to the Muscovites’: Othering ‘the migrants’ in the 2013 Moscow mayoral elections 213
20. 10. Anti-migrant, but not nationalist: Pursuing statist legitimacy through immigration discourse and policy 236
21. 11. Everyday patriotism and ethnicity in today’s Russia 258
22. 12. Identity in Crimea before annexation: A bottom-up perspective 282
23. Index 306