Publisher's Synopsis
Stephen Carter's analysis focuses on the development of Russian's self-image, from its origin in Panslavism and Slovophilism, through the "preservation" and "renewal" phase of the Brezhnev years, and on towards a new, tensely defensive and extremist nationalism which emerged in the 1980s in such societies as Pamyat and Otechestvo. These societies grew from groups of people who concerned themselves with the preservation of ancient monuments, but this innocent activity has since 1985 takne a more sinister turn as the societies have developed anti-Semitic, neo-fascitst characteristics.
