The Faces of Contemporary Russian Nationalism

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In contrast to the substantial output of Western works on the revival of nationalism among the non-Russians in the USSR, the critical phenomenon of Russian nationalism has been little studied in the West. Here John B. Dunlop measures the strength and political viability of a movement that has been steadily growing since the mid-1960s and that may well eventually become the ruling ideology of the state. Professor Dunlop's comprehensive discussion depicts for the Western reader the gamut of Russian nationalism from Solzhenitsyn to the vehement National Bolsheviks. With the Soviet Union in the midst of significant political change, the identification of internal dissident groups and their effect on the course of that change is a major issue of American foreign policy and scholarship. This work suggests the appeal of Russian nationalists to various elite and mass constituencies in the Soviet Union and suggests a direction for American policy toward emerging Russian nationalism. John B. Dunlop is Associate Director and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is the author of The New Russian Revolutionaries (Nordland) and coeditor of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Critical Essays and Documentary Materials (Nordland). Sponsored by the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace