Eugene M. Avrutin is the Tobor Family Endowed Professor of Modern European Jewish History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. He is the author and co-editor of several award-winning books, including Jews and the Imperial State: Identification Politics in Tsarist Russia (2010) and The Velizh Affair: Blood Libel in a Russian Town (2018). Most recently, he edited, with Elissa Bemporad, Pogroms: A Documentary History (2021).

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. The Empire's Races2. Boundaries of Exclusion3. “The Most Hopeful Nation on Earth”4. White RageSelected BibliographyIndex

In Racism in Modern Russia Avrutin affirms the utility of studying racial formations in Russia, the Soviet Union, and Postsoviet space. The work offers an important intervention, demonstrating how to move beyond questioning the applicability of race to showing how and why race emerged as a feature of these societies and to what ends.

Eugene M. Avrutin is the Tobor Family Endowed Professor of Modern European Jewish History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. He is the author and co-editor of several award-winning books, including Jews and the Imperial State: Identification Politics in Tsarist Russia (2010) and The Velizh Affair: Blood Libel in a Russian Town (2018). Most recently, he edited, with Elissa Bemporad, Pogroms: A Documentary History (2021).

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. The Empire's Races2. Boundaries of Exclusion3. “The Most Hopeful Nation on Earth”4. White RageSelected BibliographyIndex

In Racism in Modern Russia Avrutin affirms the utility of studying racial formations in Russia, the Soviet Union, and Postsoviet space. The work offers an important intervention, demonstrating how to move beyond questioning the applicability of race to showing how and why race emerged as a feature of these societies and to what ends.

Eugene M. Avrutin is the Tobor Family Endowed Professor of Modern European Jewish History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. He is the author and co-editor of several award-winning books, including Jews and the Imperial State: Identification Politics in Tsarist Russia (2010) and The Velizh Affair: Blood Libel in a Russian Town (2018). Most recently, he edited, with Elissa Bemporad, Pogroms: A Documentary History (2021).

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. The Empire's Races2. Boundaries of Exclusion3. “The Most Hopeful Nation on Earth”4. White RageSelected BibliographyIndex

In Racism in Modern Russia Avrutin affirms the utility of studying racial formations in Russia, the Soviet Union, and Postsoviet space. The work offers an important intervention, demonstrating how to move beyond questioning the applicability of race to showing how and why race emerged as a feature of these societies and to what ends.