The New Russian Nationalism Imperialism, Ethnicity and Authoritarianism

the new russian nationalism

Russian language
for interethnic communication,
161
as language of the state, 270
and national identity, 13, 33
during the Soviet Union, 43
Russian Liberation Front ‘Pamiat’
(Russkii Front Osvobozheniia
‘Pamiat’), 92
Russian March, 2, 9, 54, 92, 95, 96,
118, 253
Russian National Union (RNS), 30–1
Russian National Unity (RNE), 31,
72, 89, 105–6
Russian (Rossiiskaia) Orthodox
Autonomous Church (ROAC),
117
Russian (Rossiiskaia) Orthodox
Church (RosOC), 116
Russian Orthodox Church
concept of Russian world (russkii
mir), 110–11, 262–3
as key value, national patriots, 106
moral values and, 291–2
Orthodox nationalists in, 108, 113,
115, 118–20
rejection of ethnic nationalism,
111–13
relationship with the state, 108–10,
115, 262–3, 292, 316
role in nation-building strategy,
258
and Russian identity, 105
television news coverage, 307–8,
313–17, 314–15, 329
universality of Russian civilization,
111–12
veneration of the tsar, 114
work with migrants, 110
see also Orthodox nationalism
Russian Orthodox Church Abroad
(ROCA), 116, 117
Russian Public Movement (Russkoe
obshchestvennoe dvizhenie)
(ROD), 79
Russian Spring, 97–8
Russia’s special path, 49, 50, 72,
343–5, 347
Russification, 24, 42, 266

russkie

conceptual shift towards (post-

2012), 160–1

understanding of the term, 40,

205–6, 265–6

use by Putin, 160, 206, 259, 271,

275–6

Russkie movement, 34, 76, 86, 88,

91–2, 94, 98, 100, 263

russkii

cultural element of, 275–6

ethnonationalist concept of, 36

and multi-ethnic Russian

nationalism, 229–30

new boundaries of, 266

public acceptance of russkii-centred

identity, 266–71

Putin’s use of, 19, 259, 275–6

in Russian for Russians slogan,

202, 265–6

usage of term, state-aligned media,

309–10

russkii mir (Russian world)

Russian Orthodox Church’s

concept of, 110–11, 262–3

term, 72, 83, 250, 256, 271

russkii narod, 18, 38, 256, 262, 263,

264, 354

see also ethnic Russians

secularism

anti-immigrant stance, 127

anti-Islamic orientation, 127–8

as dynamic sector of ethnic

nationalism, 128–9

nationalists in, 124–6

and personal religious practices,

127

use of Orthodox rhetoric, 126

security forces (siloviki), 349

Sergeev, Sergei, 35, 36–7

Seton-Watson, Hugh, 25

Sevastianov, Aleksandr, 35, 37, 125,

127

Shafarevich, Igor, 28–9, 36

Shaimiev, Mintimer, 224

Sharafutdinova, Gulnaz, 291

Shenfield, Stephen, 29

Shevchenko, Maksim, 310