the new russian nationalismxivStephen Hutchings is Professor of Russian Studies at the
University of Manchester, UK and Fellow of the Academy of
Social Sciences. He has published six monographs and five edited
volumes on various aspects of Russian literary, film and media
studies, including Russian Modernism: The Transfiguration of the
Everyday (Cambridge University Press, 1997), Russian Literary
Culture in the Camera Age: The Word as Image (Routledge,
2004), Television and Culture in Putin’s Russia: Remote Control
(Routledge, 2009, co- authored with Natalia Rulyova) and Nation,
Ethnicity and Race on Russian Television: Mediating Post- Soviet
Difference (Routledge 2015, co- authored with Vera Tolz). He has
held five large research grants with the UK’s Arts and Humanities
Research Council since 2000. Hutchings was President of the
British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies
2010–13 and is currently Associate Editor of the Russian Journal
of Communication.
Pål Kolstø is Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Oslo,
Norway since 1990. His main research areas are nationalism,
nation- building, ethnic conflicts and nationality policy in Russia,
the former Soviet Union and the Western Balkans. Kolstø’s main
publications include: Russians in the Former Soviet Republics
(Hurst & Co, 1995), Nation- building and Ethnic Integration in
Post- Soviet Societies: An Investigation of Latvia and Kazakstan
(Westview Press, 1999, editor), Political Construction Sites:
Nation- building in Russia and the Post- Soviet States (Westview
Press, 2000), National Integration and Violent Conflict in Post-
Soviet Societies: The Cases of Estonia and Moldova (Rowman &
Littlefield, 2002, editor), Nation- building and Common Values
in Russia (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004, co- edited with Helge
Blakkisrud), Myths and Boundaries in South- Eastern Europe
(Hurst & Co, 2005, editor), Media Discourse and the Yugoslav
Conflicts: Representations of Self and Other (Ashgate, 2009,
editor), and Strategies of Symbolic Nation- building in South
Eastern Europe (Ashgate, 2014, editor). He has published
roughly forty articles in English- language refereed journals in
addition to numerous publications in other languages. He is a
recipient of six large research grants to study nation- building and