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Youth Politics in Putin's Russia: Producing Patriots and Entrepreneurs

Youth Politics in Putin's Russia: Producing Patriots and Entrepreneurs

Hardcover

Series: New Anthropologies of Europe

AnthropologyGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0253017726
ISBN13: 9780253017727
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: Sep 14 2015
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

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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