Edinburgh University Press
Russia Before and After Crimea
-
Helge Blakkisrud
About this book
Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 marked a watershed in post-Cold War European history and brought East–West relations to a low. At the same time, by selling this fateful action in starkly nationalist language, the Putin regime achieved record-high popularity.
This book shows how, after the large-scale 2011–2013 anti-Putin demonstrations in major Russian cities and the parallel rise in xenophobia related to the Kremlin’s perceived inability to deal with the influx of Central Asian labour migrants, the annexation of Crimea generated strong ‘rallying around the nation’ and ‘rallying around the leader’ effects.
The contributors to this collection go beyond the news headlines to focus on overlooked aspects of Russian society such as intellectual racism and growing xenophobia. These developments are contextualised with an overview of Russian nationalism: state-led, grassroots and the tensions between the two.
Topics
-
Download PDFPublicly Available
Frontmatter
i -
Download PDFPublicly Available
Contents
v -
Download PDFPublicly Available
Figures
vii -
Download PDFPublicly Available
Tables
viii -
Download PDFPublicly Available
Notes on Contributors
ix -
Download PDFPublicly Available
Preface
xvii -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Introduction: Exploring Russian nationalisms
1 - Part I. Official nationalism
-
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
1. Contemporary Russian nationalism in the historical struggle between ‘offi cial nationality’ and ‘popular sovereignty’
21 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
2. Imperial and ethnic nationalism: A dilemma of the Russian elite
50 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
3. Kremlin’s post-2012 national policies: Encountering the merits and perils of identity-based social contract
68 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
4. Sovereignty and Russian national identity-making: The biopolitical dimension
93 - Part II. Radical and other societal nationalisms
-
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
5. Revolutionary nationalism in Contemporary Russia
117 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
6. The Russian nationalist movement at low ebb
142 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
7. Ideologue of neo-Nazi terror: Aleksandr Sevastianov and Russia’s ‘partisan’ insurgency
163 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
8. The extreme right fringe of Russian nationalism and the Ukraine conflict: The National Socialist Initiative
187 - Part III. Identities and otherings
-
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
9. ‘Restore Moscow to the Muscovites’: Othering ‘the migrants’ in the 2013 Moscow mayoral elections
213 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
10. Anti-migrant, but not nationalist: Pursuing statist legitimacy through immigration discourse and policy
236 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
11. Everyday patriotism and ethnicity in today’s Russia
258 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
12. Identity in Crimea before annexation: A bottom-up perspective
282 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Index
306
