Presentation of the book by Jules Sergei Fediunin: Les Nationalismes russes. Governing, mobilizing, contesting in Russia at war
The CREE is pleased to invite you to the presentation of Jules Sergei Fediunin's book entitled: Les Nationalismes russes. Gouverner, mobiliser, contester dans la Russie en guerre, Éditions Calmann-Levy.
The discussion will be led by:
- Jules Sergei Fediunin, docteur en science politique et chercheur associé au CREE de l'Inalco, Marie Skłodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oslo
- Julie Gacon, journalist at France Culture
BOOK SUMMARY
Vladimir Putin today seems to have no other objective than to win back all the "historic territories" of the former USSR. Has the pragmatism of his early days given way to the project of uniting all the communities of the "Russian world" within a single state?
Jules Sergei Fediunin describes the landscape of the new Russian nationalism in all its nuances: from its ethnocultural version, which exalts the values proper to the Russian nation, to the imperial tradition, which dreams of restoring the power of the state. He shows how the war in Ukraine radically transformed this "nationalist galaxy", giving it both new vigor and new faces.
After long alternating between repression and co-optation of nationalists, Putin has now appropriated their discourse. This recycling has enabled him to construct the figure of the Russians' great enemy: "The Collective West", against whom he can secure popular support at home and justify his aggression abroad.
For how much longer?
Beyond the Russian case alone and the outcome of the war in Ukraine, Russian Nationalisms reminds us, against certain naïveties that persist in Europe, that neither nationalisms nor wars between states are about to disappear.
AUTHOR'SBIOGRAPHY
Jules Sergei Fediunin is a political scientist and doctor at Inalco. A Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oslo, he has taught at Sorbonne University and conducted research at the CESPRA of EHESS. His work focuses on nationalism and the circulation of political ideas in Russia and the former Soviet Union.
COORDINATION
- Étienne Boisserie, co-director of Inalco's CREE