Julie Hemment provides a fresh perspective on the controversial
nationalist youth projects that have proliferated in Russia in the
Putin era, examining them from the point of view of their participants
and offering provocative insights into their origins and significance.
The pro-Kremlin organization Nashi ("Ours") and other state-run
initiatives to mobilize Russian youth have been widely reviled in the
West, seen as Soviet throwbacks and evidence of Russia's authoritarian
turn. By contrast, Hemment's detailed ethnographic analysis finds an
astute global awareness and a paradoxical kinship with the
international democracy-promoting interventions of the 1990s. Drawing
on Soviet political forms but responding to 21st-century
disenchantments with the neoliberal state, these projects seek to
produce not only patriots, but also volunteers, entrepreneurs, and
activists.
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ISBN
9780253017819
Publisert
2015
Utgiver
Vendor
Indiana University Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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