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

by Julie Hemment

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253017726
• ISBN13: 9780253017727
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher