List of figures
List of tables
Notes on contributors
Preface
Introduction: Exploring Russian nationalisms
Pål Kolstø and Helge Blakkisrud
Part I Official nationalism
1. Contemporary Russian nationalism in the historical struggle between 'official nationality' and 'popular sovereignty'
Emil Pain
2. Imperial and ethnic nationalism: A dilemma of the Russian elite
Eduard Ponarin and Michael Komin
3. Kremlin's post-2012 national policies: Encountering the merits and perils of identity-based social contract
Yuri Teper
4. Sovereignty and Russian national identity-making: The biopolitical dimension 129
Andrey Makarychev and Alexandra Yatsyk
Part II Radical and other societal nationalisms
5. Revolutionary nationalism in Contemporary Russia
Alexandra Kuznetsova and Sergey Sergeev
6. The Russian nationalist movement at low ebb
Alexander Verkhovsky
7. Ideologue of neo-Nazi terror: Aleksandr Sevastianov and Russia's 'partisan' insurgency
Robert Horvath
8. The extreme right fringe of Russian nationalism and the Ukraine conflict: The National Socialist Initiative
Sofia Tipaldou
Part III Identities and otherings
9. 'Restore Moscow to the Muscovites': Othering 'the migrants' in the 2013 Moscow mayoral elections
Helge Blakkisrud and Pål Kolstø
10. Anti-migrant, but not nationalist: Pursuing statist legitimacy through immigration discourse and policy
Caress Schenk
11. Everyday patriotism and ethnicity in today's Russia
J. Paul Goode
12. Identity in Crimea before annexation: A bottom-up perspective
Eleanor Knott
Index