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State-managed Youth Participation in Russia: The National, Collective and Personal in Nashi Activists’ Narratives

By Krivonos D.

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english
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820 kB (839977 bytes)
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Topic
History
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twirpx
Time added
2017-08-07 07:01:42
Исторические дисциплины;История России;Новейшая ис

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Article published in the «Anthropology of East Europe Review» — 2015 — # 33(1) Spring — p. 44-58The article explores the relationships between the state and youth through the narratives of activists in the Russian youth movement Nashi. The research is based on ethnographic fieldwork among young activists in St. Petersburg and Moscow during political rallies and in the annual educational youth camp Seliger. The article analyzes how major transformations in the pro-Kremlin youth movement, adhering to the political agenda of the state were subjectively interpreted and understood by young activists using the tools of narrative analysis. The article suggests that despite the high demand for loyalty to the state agenda, young people construct their own definitions and justifications of their state-managed political activism, reconciling and differentiating between national, collective and personal subject positions of the activism.

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