Slavophiles and Commissars Enemies of Democracy in Modern Russia [Paperback]

This book examines contemporary Russian nationalism as it reemerged in the wake of Gorbachev's liberalisation. The book argues that the new nationalism provided opponents of reform with an apparently novel justification for their hostility to the liberalisation inaugurated by Gorbachev and erratically pursued by Yeltsin.Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations and Conventions Introduction PART I: IDEAS The Intelligentsia and the Nationalist Revival Neo-Fascism Russian Orthodoxy and Nationalism PART II: POLITICS The Genesis of the August Coup The National Salvation Front 1991-1993 The Rise of Vladimir Zhirinovsky Zyuganov's Communists and Nationalism The Quest for Power: the 1995-6 Elections Conclusion Bibliography IndexJUDITH DEVLIN is College Lecturer in Modern History at UCD. Previous works include The Superstitious Mind: French Peasants and the Supernatural in Nineteenth Century France (Yale University Press, 1987), The Rise of the Russian Democrats: the Causes and Consequences of the Elite Revolution (Edward Elgar, 1995).