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In the Name of the Nation

Part of the The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9780230101234

ISBN: 978-1-349-38117-3

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Nov 24, 2015

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Introduction

Laruelle, Marlène

Pages: 1 –11

[In the early 1990s, Russia was depicted in the western media as a country in the midst of major social upheaval owing to its transition to a market economy. The image was one of Mafioso businessmen and oligarchs getting rich at the expense of a society that was wracked by misery, undermined by...
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Nationalism: A Means of Taking up the Challenges?

Laruelle, Marlène

Pages: 13 –48

[The example of Russia urges us to reconsider the supposed “death of the nation”: today the nation-state is still the only force proposing to heterogeneous populations that they mutualize their risks and build a minimum of solidarity in the name of a certain community of political culture. It...
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Nationalism as Opposition: The Extra-parliamentary Camp

Laruelle, Marlène

Pages: 49 –83

[In this chapter I start out from the idea that a part of Russian nationalism, usually defined as radical nationalism, ultranationalism, the extreme right, extremism, and so forth, can be more rigorously defined as extra-parliamentary. All attempts to classify these nationalist movements...
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Nationalism as Populism: The Protestation Parties

Laruelle, Marlène

Pages: 85 –117

[After analyzing extra-parliamentary nationalism, it pays to turn our focus to the nationalist strategy and political trajectory of the parties that present themselves as part of the opposition but participate in the legislative game and sit at the Duma. There are three such parties: the...
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Nationalism as Conservative Centrism: United Russia

Laruelle, Marlène

Pages: 119 –152

[In this chapter, I define nationalism as a conservative centrism that has permitted the Kremlin to appropriate the nationalist rhetoric that had, for some years, been in the hands of the opposition. In the second half of the 1990s, the ruling elites began to invest in this field of discourse...
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Nationalism as Social Consensus: The Patriotic Brand

Laruelle, Marlène

Pages: 153 –191

[The Kremlin does not utilize the reference to the nation only as an instrument by which to control the political spectrum. It also has a social function, that of creating a twofold consensus: one between citizens themselves, and another between citizens and the political elite. The first...
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Conclusion

Laruelle, Marlène

Pages: 193 –203

[During perestroika and the first years of the 1990s, Russian society was torn apart by considerable ideological conflicts in which the political class showed remarkable disdain for a public opinion that it considered too conservative and unenthusiastic about the liberal changes underway. In...

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