Black Wind, White Snow: The Rise of Russia's New Nationalism - Softcover

Clover, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300226454 ISBN 13: 9780300226454

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2017

Synopsis

A fascinating study of the root motivations behind the political activities and philosophies of Putin’s government in Russia

Charles Clover, award-winning journalist and former Moscow bureau chief for the Financial Times, here analyses the idea of "Eurasianism," a theory of Russian national identity based on ethnicity and geography. Clover traces Eurasianism’s origins in the writings of White Russian exiles in 1920s Europe, through Siberia’s Gulag archipelago in the 1950s, the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, and up to its steady infiltration of the governing elite around Vladimir Putin. This eye-opening analysis pieces together the evidence for Eurasianism’s place at the heart of Kremlin thinking today and explores its impact on recent events, the annexation of Crimea, the rise in Russia of anti-Western paranoia and imperialist rhetoric, as well as Putin’s sometimes perplexing political actions and ambitions.

Based on extensive research and dozens of interviews with Putin’s close advisers, this quietly explosive story will be essential reading for anyone concerned with Russia’s past century, and its future.

About this title

Book Description:

In this timely, thought-provoking study, the former Moscow bureau chief for the Financial Times argues that a dangerous “Eurasianist” ideology in modern-day Russia helps to explain the sometimes perplexing actions and ambitions of Vladimir Putin and explores what it portends for the future of the Eastern European nations.

About the Author:

American journalist Charles Clover is currently the Financial Times’s China correspondent. In 2011 he received the Foreign Reporter of the Year Award at the British Press Awards.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0300226454
• ISBN 13: 9780300226454
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 360