Youth politics in Putin's Russia : producing patriots and entrepreneurs /

Youth politics in Putin's Russia : producing patriots and entrepreneurs /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Hemment, Julie, author.
Imprint:	Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2015] ©2015
Description:	1 online resource : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, -- 1952- Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, -- 1952- Youth -- Political activity -- Russia (Federation) Youth -- Government policy -- Russia (Federation) Youth -- Russia (Federation) -- Social conditions. Post-communism -- Social aspects -- Russia (Federation) Post-communism -- Social aspects. Youth -- Government policy. Youth -- Political activity. Youth -- Social conditions. Russia (Federation) Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11755100

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ISBN:	9780253017819 0253017815 9780253017727 0253017726 9780253017796 0253017793
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Hemment, Julie. Youth politics in Putin's Russia 9780253017727

Table of Contents:

Collaborative possibilities, new Cold War constraints: ethnography in the Putin era
Nashi in ideology and practice: the social life of sovereign democracy
Seliger 2009: "commodify your talent"
From komsomol'tsy-dobrovol'tsy to entrepreneurial volunteers: technologies of kindness
"Arousing" patriotism: satire, sincerity, and geopolitical play.