Russian Nationalism and the Politics of Soviet Literature: The Case of Nash sovremennik , 1981-1991

· Springer
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253
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Russian nationalism, increasingly important as the Russian Federation finds its place in the world, is not a new phenomenon. Who were the Russian nationalists before the creation of today's Russia? What were their views? What was their political influence? This book seeks answers to these questions by looking in detail at the last decade of the USSR through the eyes of a group of Russian nationalist intellectuals gathered around the literary journal Nash sovremennik . The author suggests that, in the Twenty-first-century, a specifically Russian type of nationalism, ethnic and statist, could provide the ideological underpinning for a new authoritarianism.

About the author

SIMON COSGROVE gained his PhD from the School of Slavonic & East European Studies, London, in 1997. Between 1999-2003 he was Team Leader for the European Initiative for Democracy & Human Rights, a grant-making programme of the European Commission for NGOs working to promote human rights, at the Delegation of the European Commission to Russia. He is currently human rights Programme Officer for the MacArthur Foundation's Initiative in the Russian Federation and post-Soviet states (Programme on Global Security and Sustainability).

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