Contents

pp v-vi

List of Figures

pp vii-vii

List of Tables

pp viii-viii

Notes on Contributors

pp ix-xvi

Preface

pp xvii-xviii

Introduction: Exploring Russian Nationalisms

pp 1-20

Part I - Official Nationalism

pp 21-22

1 - Contemporary Russian Nationalism in the Historical Struggle Between ‘Official Nationality’ and ‘Popular Sovereignty’

pp 23-49

2 - Imperial and Ethnic Nationalism: A Dilemma of the Russian Elite

pp 50-67

3 - Kremlin’s Post-2012 National Policies: Encountering the Merits and Perils of Identity-Based Social Contract

pp 68-92

4 - Sovereignty and Russian National Identity-Making: The Biopolitical Dimension

pp 93-116

Part II - Radical and other Societal Nationalisms

pp 117-118

5 - Revolutionary Nationalism in Contemporary Russia

pp 119-141

6 - The Russian Nationalist Movement at Low Ebb

pp 142-162

7 - Ideologue of neo-Nazi Terror: Aleksandr Sevastianov and Russia’s ‘Partisan’ Insurgency

pp 163-186

8 - The Extreme Right Fringe of Russian Nationalism and the Ukraine Conflict: The National Socialist Initiative

pp 187-210

Part III - Identities and Otherings

pp 211-212

9 - ‘Restore Moscow to the Muscovites’: Othering ‘the Migrants’ in the 2013 Moscow Mayoral Elections

pp 213-235

10 - Anti-Migrant, but not Nationalist: Pursuing Statist Legitimacy through Immigration Discourse and Policy

pp 236-257

11 - Everyday Patriotism and Ethnicity in Today’s Russia

pp 258-281

12 - Identity in Crimea Before Annexation: A Bottom-up Perspective

pp 282-305

Index

pp 306-334