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.