Sylabus
1. Introduction. Soviet and Russian Nationalism : uncertain relations
Reading
Suny, R.G. (1993). Chapter 3. State-Building and Nation-Making: The Soviet Experience. In: The Revenge of the Past: Nationalism, Revolution, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
Laruelle, Marlene. "Rethinking Russian nationalism: Historical continuity, political diversity, and doctrinal fragmentation." In Russian nationalism and the national reassertion of Russia, pp. 13-48. 2010. 2. Ideological foundation of Russian nationalism
Laruelle, Marlene. Russian nationalism: Imaginaries, doctrines, and political battlefields. Taylor & Francis, 2019. Parts I-II 3 Late Soviet Union and Russian Nationalism in Russia: “Russian Party” and “Pamyat” Russian nationalism and collapse of USSR.
Reading
Sukhankin, Sergey. "Anti-Semitism in the late Soviet Union: The rise and fall of Pamyat movement." Tiempo devorado 4, no. 1 (2017): 0039-60
Mitrokhin, Nikolai. "Ethno-nationalist Mythology in the Soviet Party-State Apparatus." (2004): 20-29. https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/d8-n52q-jb90/download
Beissinger, M.R. (2009). Nationalism and the Collapse of Soviet Communism. Contemporary European History, [online] 18(3), pp.331–347
Suny, R.G. (1993). Chapter 3. State-Building and Nation-Making: The Soviet Experience. In: The Revenge of the Past: Nationalism, Revolution, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. 4. Russian policy of nationalities and Russian nationalism
Shcherbak, Andrey, and Kristina Sych. "Trends in Russian nationalities policy: a structural perspective." Problems of Post-Communism 64, no. 6 (2017): 311-328.
Brubaker, Rogers. "Nationalizing states revisited: projects and processes of nationalization in post-Soviet states." In Nationalism, ethnicity and boundaries, pp. 177-203. Routledge, 2014. 5. Russian compatriots’ abroad – between “common past” and “ethnic unity”
Reading
Laruelle, Marlene. "Russia as a “Divided nation,” from compatriots to Crimea: A contribution to the discussion on nationalism and foreign policy." Problems of Post-Communism 62, no. 2 (2015): 88-97. 6. Russian Orthodox Church and Russian Nationalism
Reading
Knox, Zoe 2005. Russian Orthodoxy, Russian Nationalism, and Patriarch Aleksii II. Nationalities Papers, 33(4), pp.533-545.
Mitrofanova, Anastasia. "Russian ethnic nationalism and religion today." The New Russian Nationalism: Imperialism, Ethnicity and Authoritarianism 2015 (2000): 104-131. 7. Russian radical nationalism
Reading
Verkhovsky, Alexander. "Radical nationalists from the start of Medvedev’s presidency to the war in Donbas: True till death?." The new Russian nationalism. imperialism, ethnicity and authoritarianism 2015 (2000): 75-103.
Du Quenoy, Irina, and Dmitry Dubrovskiy. "Violence and the Defense of ‘Traditional Values’ in the Russian Federation." Religion and Violence in Russia: Context, Manifestations, and Policy (2018): 93-116 8 Putin and Nationalism
Reading
Kolstø, Pål. "The ethnification of Russian nationalism." The New Russian nationalism: Imperialism, ethnicity and authoritarianism 2000–2015 (2016): 18-45. 9 Russia: Nationalizing country, weaponizing memory and language
Reading
Koposov, Nikolay. Memory laws, memory wars: the politics of the past in Europe and Russia. Cambridge, Cambridge UP. Chapter 1.
Ryazanova-Clarke, Lara. "From commodification to weaponization: The Russian language as ‘pride’and ‘profit’in Russia's transnational discourses." International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 20, no. 4 (2017): 443-456. 10. Russian nationalism and the Ukrainian War
Reading
Kolstø, Pål. "Crimea vs. Donbas: How Putin won Russian nationalist support—And lost it again." Slavic Review 75, no. 3 (2016): 702-725.
Kuzio, Taras. Russian Nationalism and the Russian-Ukrainian War: Autocracy-Orthodoxy-Nationality. Routledge, 2022.
Anotace
This course explores various issues of nationalism in post-Soviet Russia/Eurasia from the collapse of the Soviet Union up to recent developments. The objective of the course is to provide a broad understanding of the importance of nationalism in late Soviet and Russian political history.
Students will familiarize themselves with the late Soviet and post-Soviet nationalities policies as well as with ethnic problems and conflicts in the USSR/ Eurasia. Students will be also able to analyze the logic of decision-making in the Soviet nationalities policy and realize political potential and prospects of nationalism in present Eurasia. The course will enable students to evaluate policies, problems and conflicts both from normative and non-normative (pragmatic) perspectives.
The course consists of three parts: the first part presents theoretical introduction to nationalism, the second part covers the Soviet period and the third part focuses on the post-Soviet nationalism. Among the topics covered are the collapse of the USSR, Russian compatriots’ policy, ethnic reasons of the collapse of the USSR, ethnic mobilization in the late Soviet period, conflict in Chechnya, radical Russian nationalism and many others.