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Three Enemies of Russia: Dmitrii Galkovskii and Strategies of “Enemification” in Contemporary Russian Nationalism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2019

Ivan Vladimirovich Bobrov*
Affiliation:
Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Dmitry Alekseevich Mikhailov*
Affiliation:
Siberian Institute of Management—Branch of Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Novosibirsk, Russia
*
*Corresponding author. E-mail: ivan.v.bobrov@gmail.com, damihan@yandex.ru
*Corresponding author. E-mail: ivan.v.bobrov@gmail.com, damihan@yandex.ru

Abstract

This article focuses on ideological constructions of contemporary nationalism shaped by the influence of Dmitrii Galkovskii. At the dawn of the Russian Internet, Galkovskii’s website, Samizdat, became the birthplace for intellectuals of contemporary Russian nationalism who emerged around Voprosy natsionalizma magazine and the online magazine Sputnik i Pogrom. Enemification strategies described in this article are understood as forms of self-representation of contemporary Russian nationalism. The goal of this article is to characterize one of the ideologies of contemporary Russian nationalism, which serves as a moral justification for some odious manifestations—xenophobia and racism. Three forces are characterized by contemporary Russian nationalists as the most dangerous challenges for the nation: the West, internal enemies, and migrants. Traditional and fundamental anti-Western rhetoric has turned into Anglophobia in the ideology of contemporary Russian nationalism. The most profound evidence might be found in Galkovskii’s conception of the history of international relations. This idea is also used when defining the internal enemy. Caucasians have taken the place of Russian nationalism’s previous main internal enemies, Jews, and are treated as representatives of the British colonial administration. The third enemy of modern Russian nationalism is migrants. They are seen as tools of the degradation policy toward Russians.

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