Alexei Navalny and challenges in reconciling “nationalism” and “liberalism”

Marlene Laruelle

Post-Soviet Affairs, 2014, vol. 30, issue 4, 276-297

Abstract: This article examines the challenges and complexities in the efforts by political activist Alexei Navalny to reconcile “nationalist” and “liberal” modes of thinking in the current Russian environment. After deciphering three major axes of Navalny's narratives on the national question, the author then discusses the social and political context within which the national-democratic (Natsdem) movement was forged. Natsdems, who are simultaneously pro-European and democratic but also xenophobic, and who target an audience among the urban middle classes, reflect a fundamental shift in Russian society. The last part of the article discusses the paradoxes of Navalny's trajectory, in which a failed theoretical articulation between “nationalism,” “democracy,” and “liberalism” nonetheless has translated into a political success.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/1060586X.2013.872453

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