The New Russian Nationalism Imperialism, Ethnicity and Authoritarianism

index

national democratic nationalist
stance on, 56–7, 70
national unity and, 82–3
popular support for, 162
and Putin’s approval rating, 6, 72,
162, 198–9, 199 , 244–5, 247–8,
358
Putin’s Crimea speech (2014), 18,
160, 206, 259–60, 331–2
and Putin’s references to
nationalism, 6, 17, 18, 44, 160,
206, 222
radical nationalist divisions and,
82, 97–8
and Russian domestic economy,
215–16, 218, 357–9
Russian dynamic state identity and,
187–8
as step towards Slavic Union, 188
as step towards USSR 2.0, 188–9
and theories of nationalism,
192–3
Western sanctions and, 357–9
see also Ukraine
Crimean Tatars, 163, 164 , 179, 189,
313, 319, 331–2
culturalists (vozrozhdentsy), 26,
28–9

Day of Russian Wrath, 94
Decembrist revolutionaries, 48, 51–2,
61, 72
Declaration of the Rights of Man and
of the Citizen, 48
declensions, political
concept of, 277
language of patriotism, 290–1
morality, 291–2, 294
national culture, 292
Deliagin, Mikhail, 356, 359
Demushkin, Dmitrii, 83, 263
Deutsch, Karl, 21
diaspora communities
as force for irredentism, 63–4
in the ‘near abroad’, 30, 32, 37
of the Orthodox Church, 111
Diomid (Dziuban), Bishop of Anadyr
and Chukotka, 117, 120
diversionary theories of war, 217

Domodedovo International Airport,

302, 327–8, 329

Donbas militias, 71

Donbas separatists, 73

Dubin, Boris, 40

Dufy, Caroline, 353

Dugin, Aleksandr, 30, 68n, 68–9, 280,

281

Dunlop, John, 20, 26, 28

Dushenov, Konstantin, 108, 113, 114,

118, 120, 129

Dzhemilev, Mustafa, 332

economy

alternative to Western capitalist

model, 342–3

debate over globalisation, 339–40

downturn in and declining migrant

worker numbers, 16–17

economic strength and stability,

NEORUSS survey, 214–16, 218

energy sector, 348–9

ethnonationalist stance on, 353–7

market reforms/modernisation of,

340–1, 345–6, 347–50

model of state capitalism, 343–5

nationalism and, 16, 337, 345–6

neoliberal state and, 339

post-annexation of Crimea,

215–16, 218, 357–9

privatisation campaigns (1990s),

342

Putin’s strategies for, 336–8,

347–53

sanctions, post-annexation of

Crimea, 357–9

Strategy 2020 reform programme,

350

2008 financial crisis, impacts of,

237, 350–1

Ekishev, Iurii, 108, 116–17

Eltsin, Boris

lame duck syndrome and, 230–1

power struggle with Gorbachev,

31–2

red-brown opposition to, 29

selection of Putin as successor,

230–1

use of term rossiiane, 3–4, 160, 252