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Youth Politics in Putin's Russia

- Producing Patriots and Entrepreneurs

About Youth Politics in Putin's Russia

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 RussiaΓÇÖs authoritarian turn. By contrast, HemmentΓÇÖs 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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  • Language:
  • English
  • ISBN:
  • 9780253017796
  • Binding:
  • Paperback
  • Pages:
  • 272
  • Published:
  • September 13, 2015
  • Dimensions:
  • 229x155x16 mm.
  • Weight:
  • 418 g.
Delivery: 2-4 weeks
Expected delivery: August 2, 2025

Description of Youth Politics in Putin's Russia

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 RussiaΓÇÖs authoritarian turn. By contrast, HemmentΓÇÖs 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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