New Russian Nationalism

Pal Kolsto is Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Oslo. He has authored two books and a number of articles and book chapters on Russian politics, Russian history and nationalism. Previously, he was Researcher at the Norwegian Defense Institute, 1987-90, and Interpreter at the Norwegian-Soviet border, 1982-83. His main research areas are nationalism, nation-building, ethnic conflicts, nationality policy in Russia, the former Soviet Union and the Western Balkans. He has published roughly 40 articles in English-language refereed journals in addition to numerous publications in other languages. He is the recipient of six large research grants to study nation-building and ethnic relations in the post-Soviet world and the former Eastern Europe. Helge Blakkisrud is the Head of the Research Group on Russia, Eurasia and the Arctic, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. Main research areas: federalism and centre-region relations in the Russian Federation, nationalism and nation-building in Russia and Eurasia, including in Eurasian de facto states. Editor in chief of the Nordic journal for East European and Eurasian Studies (Nordisk Ostfroum). Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, UC Berkeley, 2009-2010, lecturer at the OSCE Academy, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, since 2008.

• List of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Russian nationalism is back – but precisely what does that mean? Pål Kolstø1. The ethnification of Russian nationalism, Pål Kolstø2. The imperial syndrome and its influence on Russian nationalism, Emil Pain3. Radical nationalists from the start of Medvedev’s presidency to the war in Donbas – true till death? Alexander Verkhovsky4. Russian ethnic nationalism and religion today, Nastasia Mitrofanova5. Everyday nationalism in Russia in European context: Moscow residents’ perceptions of ethnic minority migrants and migration, Natalya Kosmarskaya and Igor Savin6. Backing the USSR 2.0: Russia’s ethnic minorities and expansionist ethnic Russian nationalism, Mikhail Alexseev7. Rallying ’round the leader more than the flag: changes in Russian nationalist public opinion 2013–14, Mikhail A. Alexseev and Henry E. Hale8. How nationalism and machine politics mix in Russia, Henry E. Hale9. Blurring the boundary between civic and ethnic: the Kremlin’s new approach to national identity under Putin’s third term, Helge Blakkisrud10. Russia as an anti-liberal European civilisation, Marlene Laruelle11. Ethnicity and nationhood on Russian state-aligned television: contextualising geopolitical crisis, Stephen Hutchings and Vera Tolz12. The place of economics in Russian national identity debates, Peter RutlandBibliographyIndex

'A long-overdue analysis of contemporary Russian nationalism that not only discusses everyday xenophobia but also links the issue of nationalism with great-power ambitions and the Ukraine crisis (Chapters 2, 3 and 7)… The editors succeeded in bringing together a range of expert authors to contribute on different facets of nationalism, ranging from ethnic minority perception (Chapter 5, Chapter 11) and nationalist tendencies in foreign policy (Chapter 7) to religion (Chapter 4) and economic considerations in nationalism (Chapter 12)… The book’s contribution to the field is unquestionable.' – Elizaveta Gaufman, University of Tübingen, Nations and Nationalism