This book looks at the past and present condition of Russian nationalism. Its chapters examine the influence of tsarist and Soviet official policies upon national identity, and seek to explain the broader political, social and cultural factors which helped or hindered the ambitions of rulers. The changeability of Russian national consciousness is exmphasised. Several chapters also highlight the various long-standing inhibitions to the emergence of a consolidated civic nationalism in a Russian Federation which gained its independence at the break-up of the USSR.

Notes on the Contributors Introduction; Geoffrey Hosking The Main Phases and Distinctive Features of Russian Nationalism; A.N.Sakharov Empire and Nation-Building in Late Imperial Russia; Geoffrey Hosking Russian Liberal Conservatism; Philip Boobbyer Changing Landmarks? Anti-Westernism in National Bolshevik and Russian Revolutionary Thought; Peter J.S.Duncan Stalin and Russian Nationalism; E.A.Rees Nationalism and History: The Cult of Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia; Maureen Perrie The Dog That Didn't Bark: Anti-Semitism in Post-Communist Russia; John D.Klier The Past in the Present: Contemporary Russian Nationalism in Historical Perspective; Simon Dixon Zhirinovskii: Ideas in Search of an Audience; Robert Service Afterword; Robert Service Index

PHILIP BOOBBYER Lecturer in Modern European History, University of Kent at Canterbury SIMON DIXON Senior Lecturer in Modern History, University of Glasgow PETER J.S. DUNCAN Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Russian Politics and Society, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London JOHN D. KLIER Elizabeth and Sydney Corob Professor of Modern Jewish History, University College London MAUREEN PERRIE Reader in Russian History, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham E.A. REES Senior Lecturer in Soviet History, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham A.N. SAKHAROV Director of the Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences.