Slavophiles and Commissars : Enemies of Democracy in Modern Russia

by Devlin, Judith

• ISBN13: 9780312222000
• ISBN10: 0312222009
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 1999-08-14
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book examines contemporary Russian nationalism as it reemerged in the wake of Gorbachev's liberalization. The first part of the book analyzes the ideology of authoritarian nationalism, as it was developed by the conservative intelligentsia. The second section examines its political impact from 1987 to the Presidential elections of 1996. The book argues that the new nationalism provided opponents of reform with an apparently novel justification for their hostility to the liberalization inaugurated by Gorbachev and erratically pursued by Yeltsin.

Author Biography

Judith Devlin is Lecturer in Modern History at University College, Dublin.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	viii	(1)
List of Abbreviations and Conventions	ix	(1)
Glossary of Parties and Groups	x	(7)
Introduction	xvii
Part I: Ideas	3	(90)
1 The Intelligentsia and the Nationalist Revival	3	(31)
2 Neo-Fascism	34	(27)
3 Russian Orthodoxy and Nationalism	61	(32)
Part II: Politics	93	(103)
4 The Genesis of the August Coup, 1989-91	93	(25)
5 The National Salvation Front, 1991-92	118	(20)
6 The Advent of Vladimir Zhirinovsky	138	(19)
7 Zyuganov's Communists and Nationalism, 1993-95	157	(24)
8 The Quest for Power: the 1995-96 Elections	181	(15)
Conclusion	196	(10)
Notes	206	(67)
References	273	(38)
Index	311