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Youth politics in Putin's Russia : producing patriots and entrepreneurs

By Hemment , Julie; Putin , Vladimir V

Book information

Publisher
Indiana Univ. Press
Year
2015
ISBN
0253017726, 978-0-253-01772-7, 978-0-253-01779-6, 0253017793, 978-0-253-01781-9, 0253017815, 46-2015-305-2
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2936135 bytes)
Pages
261 S\277
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
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Description

Julie Hemment provides a fresh perspective on the controversial nationalist youth projects that have proliferated in Russia in the Putin era, examining them from the point of view of their participants and offering provocative insights into their origins and significance. The pro-Kremlin organization Nashi ("Ours") and other state-run initiatives to mobilize Russian youth have been widely reviled in the West, seen as Soviet throwbacks and evidence of Russia’s authoritarian turn. By contrast, Hemment’s detailed ethnographic analysis finds an astute global awareness and a paradoxical kinship with the international democracy-promoting interventions of the 1990s. Drawing on Soviet political forms but responding to 21st-century disenchantments with the neoliberal state, these projects seek to produce not only patriots, but also volunteers, entrepreneurs, and activists.

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