Slavophiles and Commissars : Enemies of Democracy in Modern Russia

Agrarian Party: Party of former CPSU members and kolkhoz directors founded in February 1993 to protect the interests of the agroindustry nomenklatura. Usually aligned with the KPRF but on occasion ready to collaborate with Yeltsin (to whose camp several of its leaders defected). All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks: Party of unrepentant neo-Stalinists founded in November 1991 and led by Nina Andreeva. Its opposition to the new regime was so extreme as to render it politically irrelevant. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 8 Acknowledgements......Page 9 List of Abbreviations and Conventions......Page 10 C......Page 11 D......Page 12 M......Page 13 P......Page 14 R......Page 15 U......Page 16 Y......Page 17 Introduction......Page 18 Part I: Ideas......Page 22 1 The Intelligentsia and the Nationalist Revival......Page 24 2 Neo-Fascism......Page 55 3 Russian Orthodoxy and Nationalism......Page 82 Part II: Politics......Page 112 4 The Genesis of the August Coup, 1989–91......Page 114 5 The National Salvation Front, 1991–92......Page 139 6 The Advent of Vladimir Zhirinovsky......Page 159 7 Zyuganov’s Communists and Nationalism, 1993–95......Page 178 8 The Quest for Power: the 1995–96 Elections......Page 202 Conclusion......Page 217 Notes......Page 227 References......Page 294 B......Page 332 E......Page 333 L......Page 334 O......Page 335 R......Page 336 S......Page 337 Z......Page 338 This work examines contemporary Russian nationalism as it re-emerged in the wake of Gorbachev's liberalization. The first part of the book analyzes the ideology of authoritarian nationalism, as it was developed by the conservative intelligentsia, while the second section examines its political impact from 1987 to the presidential elections of 1996. The book argues that the new nationalism provided opponents of reform with an apparently novel justification for their hostility to the liberalization inaugurated by Gorbachev and erratically pursued by Yeltsin 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. Examining contemporary Russian nationalism as it reemerged in the wake of Gorbachev's liberalisation, this book analyses the ideology of authoritarian nationalism, as developed by the conservative intelligentsia, and its political impact Judith Devlin. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.