(IERES) Marlene Laruelle and Andreas Umland address questions about the ideological diversity of Russian nationalism, its sociological basis, the doctrinal greyness of Putin’s regime, the issue of an anti-Putin Russian nationalism, the Kremlin’s support of the Western far-right, and comparisons with Ukrainian nationalism. Marlene Laruelle is director and research professor at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES ) and Andreas Umland is the principal expert at the program for European, Regional and Russian Studies of the Ukrainian Institute for the Future in Kyiv.
The event marks the release of Marlene Laruelle’s book in Open Access: Russian Nationalism: Imaginaries, Doctrines, and Political Battlefields (Routledge, 2018).