In the Name of the Nation: Nationalism and Politics in Contemporary Russia (The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy)

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Previous Publications......Page 9
Introduction......Page 10
One: Nationalism: A Means of Taking up the Challenges?......Page 22
A Specific Historical Context: Russia Since 1991......Page 23
Russia's Complex Political Agenda in the 1990s......Page 24
Vladimir Putin and the So-called Revival of the State......Page 27
Managing Contradictory Logics: Charismatic Leader or Party Legitimacy?......Page 32
The Fluctuations of Russian Foreign Policy......Page 38
Xenophobia: A Mass Phenomenon in Russia......Page 44
Assessing Popular Support for Nationalist Radicalism......Page 45
A Sociological Given on the Rise......Page 48
Xenophobia in Political and Social Milieus......Page 52
Economic and Symbolic Issues of Xenophobic Sensibilities......Page 55
Two: Nationalism as Opposition: The Extra-parliamentary Camp......Page 58
The So-called Radical Right: A Multifaceted Reality......Page 59
The First Institutions of Post-Soviet Reconciliation......Page 60
The Distribution of the Ideological Field in the 1990s......Page 61
The Leading Movements of Political Radicalism: The RNU and the NBP......Page 64
Restructuration of Extra-parliamentary Nationalism in the 2000s......Page 67
Seeking Social Mobilization: The Skinhead Phenomenon......Page 69
Birth, Structuration, and Politicization of the Skinhead Movement......Page 70
A Sociological Approach to Skinhead Milieus......Page 72
Radicalization of Violence in the 2000s......Page 74
The Ambiguous Attitude of the Political Authorities......Page 76
An Absence of Judicial Response......Page 77
Anti-immigration: The Long-Awaited Ideological Consensus?......Page 80
The Kremlin's Obsessive Fight Against the National Bolsheviks......Page 81
Formulating a New Strategy: The Movement Against Illegal Immigration......Page 83
Reconciliation Embodied? The Phenomenon of the Russian March......Page 88
Three: Nationalism as Populism: The Protestation Parties......Page 94
The "Constructive Opposition": The CPRF and the LDPR......Page 95
Rebirth, Structure, and Weakening of the Communist Party......Page 96
The Difficult Building of "Neo-Communism"......Page 99
The CPRF's Ideological Matrices: State and Orthodox Symphony......Page 102
The LDPR: Scope and Limits of Populist Protest......Page 105
Vladimir Zhirinovski or Assumed Imperialism?......Page 107
Rodina: The New Face of Right-Thinking Nationalism......Page 111
A Complex Political Journey: Loyalty or Opposition?......Page 112
The Ideological Kaleidoscope of Rodina and Its Multiple Subgroups......Page 116
Rodina's Programmatic Discourse and Parliamentary Activities......Page 121
Four: Nationalism as Conservative Centrism: United Russia......Page 128
1994–1995: Decreasing Political Polarization......Page 129
1996: The First Call for a New National Ideology......Page 131
Alexander Lebed: Man of the "Third Way"?......Page 134
1996–1999: The Rise of the Pioneers of Patriotic Centrism......Page 136
The 1999–2000 Elections and the Building of a Hegemonic Party......Page 140
A Presidential Party on the Search for an Ideology?......Page 143
The Legacy of the CPSU: Controlling all the Levers of the State......Page 145
A Propaganda Tool: The Evropa Publishing House......Page 148
Patriotism Versus Nationalism in Presidential Discourse......Page 151
Vladislav Surkov: Father of the Idea of Sovereign Democracy......Page 154
An Absence of Doctrine in Identity Issues?......Page 157
Five: Nationalism as Social Consensus: The Patriotic Brand......Page 162
Officializing National Pride through Patriotism......Page 163
The Restoration of Tsarist and Soviet Symbols......Page 164
Consensus through Commemoration......Page 166
Promoting Symbolic Capital: Instrumental Orthodoxy......Page 169
The Patriarchate: An Ideologically Divided Institution......Page 170
The Difficult Relations Between the Orthodox Church and the State......Page 175
Nonfunctional Patriotic Alliances Between the Church, the Army, and the School......Page 179
The Army as a Metaphor for the Nation......Page 184
State Programs for Patriotic Education......Page 186
Flagship Institutions of Militarized Patriotism......Page 189
The Publications of the Defense Ministry and the Security Services......Page 191
Cultural Ways of Promoting Militarized Patriotism......Page 194
Mass Focus on the Second World War and the Rehabilitation of Stalin......Page 197
Conclusion......Page 202
Notes......Page 214
Bibliography......Page 242
C......Page 258
I......Page 259
M......Page 260
R......Page 261
X......Page 262
Z......Page 263