The Stavropol’ riot: emerging civil culture and its limits

Dmitry Shlapentokh

Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, 2019, vol. 27, issue 2-3, 227-254

Abstract: Racial and ethnic violence is widespread in the West, including the USA, and is hardly a specific attribute of post-Soviet Russia. It is not caused by post-Soviet Russia’s unwillingness to follow the road of Western democratic capitalism. In broader context, ethnic violence in Russia and elsewhere could be framed in the context of a broader picture – it is the peculiar manifestation of global shifts, which could be seen in the context of Spenglerian “decline of the West.” Ethnic and racial violence in Russia and the West have a lot of similarities, it is often conflict between two different cultures. One is “premodern”/criminal and the other manifests modernity with self-controlled “civic society.” Still, riots in Russia are clearly different from one perspective. In the West (e.g. the USA) it is minorities who launch the riots; it is the majority who do the same in Russia. The ethnic riots in Stavropol’ (2007) could be here a good example.

Date: 2019
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