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Government-organized yet scandal-stricken, Nashi inspires everything from broad support to a reluctance to accept all implications of Putin's political system. This volume shows how Nashi conceptualizes an "ideal youth" within the framework of an official national identity politics and as an attempt to mobilize apolitical youth.
Price: $46.00
Pages: 230
Publisher: Ibidem Press
Imprint: Ibidem Press
Series: Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
Publication Date:
22 July 2014
Trim Size: 8.27 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783838205854
Format: Paperback
At a time when Russia's political leadership is confronting an increasingly mobilized society, this book helps us understand the communication strategies used by pro-Kremlin groups in their efforts to garner the support of youth for the Putin-centered regime. Capturing Nashi's own 'voices,' this intriguing and detailed analysis of Nashi's self-image and web-based outreach strategies sheds light on the mechanisms of political-patriotic mobilization in semi-authoritarian regimes, as well as on their unintended consequences.
Jussi Lassila is a researcher at the Aleksanteri Institute (Finnish Centre for Russian and Eastern European Studies) of the University of Helsinki.
Acknowledgements
Foreword by Kirill Postoutenko
I. Introduction
II. Between the State and Apolitical Youth
III. Nashi, the Field of Youth Movements and Political Participation of Russia's Youth
IV. Towards Nashi's Political Style: From Moral Panic to National Megaproject
V. Projecting the Movement Onwards
VI. Nashi's Political Rituals
VII. Struggling with Image
VIII. How to be a Distinctive Conformist?
IX. Discussion
Bibliography
Appendices