Russian Nationalism, Past and Present

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

   • Geoffrey Hosking

   Pages 1-6

3. The Main Phases and Distinctive Features of Russian Nationalism

   • A. N. Sakharov

   Pages 7-18

4. Empire and Nation-Building in Late Imperial Russia

   • Geoffrey Hosking

   Pages 19-34

5. Russian Liberal Conservatism

   • Philip Boobbyer

   Pages 35-54

6. Changing Landmarks? Anti-Westernism in National Bolshevik and Russian Revolutionary Thought

   • Peter J. S. Duncan

   Pages 55-76

7. Stalin and Russian Nationalism

   • E. A. Rees

   Pages 77-106

8. Nationalism and History: The Cult of Ivan the Terrible in Stalin’s Russia

   • Maureen Perrie

   Pages 107-127

9. The Dog That Didn’t Bark: Anti-Semitism in Post-Communist Russia

   • John D. Klier

   Pages 129-147

10. The Past in the Present: Contemporary Russian Nationalism in Historical Perspective

    • Simon Dixon

    Pages 149-177

11. Zhirinovskii: Ideas in Search of an Audience

    • Robert Service

    Pages 179-197

12. Afterword

    • Robert Service

    Pages 199-203

13. Back Matter

    Pages 205-217

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This book looks at the past and present condition of Russian nationalism. Its chapters examine the influence of tsarist and Soviet official policies upon national identity, and seek to explain the broader political, social and cultural factors which helped or hindered the ambitions of rulers. The changeability of Russian national consciousness is exmphasised. Several chapters also highlight the various long-standing inhibitions to the emergence of a consolidated civic nationalism in a Russian Federation which gained its independence at the break-up of the USSR.

• communism
• empire
• history
• national identity
• nationalism
• revolution
• Russia
• Stalin
• Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)

• School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, UK

  Geoffrey Hosking, Robert Service

PHILIP BOOBBYER Lecturer in Modern European History, University of Kent at Canterbury SIMON DIXON Senior Lecturer in Modern History, University of Glasgow PETER J.S. DUNCAN Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Russian Politics and Society, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London JOHN D. KLIER Elizabeth and Sydney Corob Professor of Modern Jewish History, University College London MAUREEN PERRIE Reader in Russian History, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham E.A. REES Senior Lecturer in Soviet History, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham A.N. SAKHAROV Director of the Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences.

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