Dissidents among dissidents : ideology, politics and the Left in post-Soviet Russia

Dissidents among dissidents : ideology, politics and the Left in post-Soviet Russia /

Budraitskis, one of Russia's most prominent leftist political commentators, explores the strange fusion of free-market ideology and postmodern nationalism that now prevails in his home country, and describes the post-Soviet evolution of the Left there. Budraitskis reconstructs the forgotten his...

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Main Author: Budraĭtskis, Ilʹi︠a︡ (Author)
Other Authors: Vivaldi, Giuliano (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Russian
Published: London ; Brooklyn : Verso Books, 2022.
Subjects:
Political culture > Russia (Federation)
Opposition (Political science) > Russia (Federation).
Right and left (Political science) > Russia (Federation).
Opposition (Political science)
Political culture.
Politics and government.
Right and left (Political science)
Russia (Federation) > Politics and government.
Russia (Federation)
Table of Contents:
  • Part one. Fantasy worlds of power. Putin lives in the world that Huntington built
  • The spectres of Munich
  • Intellectuals and the 'New Cold War'
  • A genealogy of Russian anti-Americanism
  • The extraordinary adventures of Guy Fawkes
  • Part two. Cultural politics in the Putin era. Contradictions in Russian cultural politics
  • The terrible power of obviousness : reading Ivan Ilyin
  • The eternal hunt for the red man
  • Order in disorder
  • Part three. The Soviet inheritance and the Left. Dissidents among dissidents
  • The Khrushchev era
  • After the thaw
  • The right turn and the 1970s
  • The post-Soviet left : an inheritance without a testament
  • The intelligentsia as a style.

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