Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Notes on contributors; 1. Introduction: Exploring Russian nationalisms, Pål Kolstø and Helge Blakkisrud; 2. Contemporary Russian nationalism in the historical struggle between ‘official nationality’ and ‘popular sovereignty’, Emil Pain; 3. Imperial and ethnic nationalism: a dilemma of the Russian elite, Eduard Ponarin and Michael Komin; 4. Kremlin’s post-2012 national policies: encountering the merits and perils of identity-based social contract, Yuri Teper; 5. Sovereignty and Russian national identity-making: the biopolitical dimension, Andrey Makarychev and Alexandra Yatsyk; 6. Revolutionary Nationalism in Contemporary Russia, Alexandra Kuznetsova and Sergey Sergeev; 7. The Russian nationalist movement at low ebb, Alexander Verkhovsky; 8. Ideologue of neo-Nazi terror: Aleksandr Sevastianov and Russia’s ‘partisan’ insurgency, Robert Horvath; 9. The extreme right fringe of Russian nationalism and the Ukraine conflict: the National Socialist Initiative, Sofia Tipaldou; 10. ‘Restore Moscow to the Muscovites’: othering ‘the migrants’ in the 2013 Moscow mayoral elections, Helge Blakkisrud and Pål Kolstø; 11. Anti-migrant, but not nationalist: pursuing statist legitimacy through immigration discourse and policy, Caress Schenk; 12. Everyday patriotism and ethnicity in today’s Russia, J. Paul Goode; 13. Identity in Crimea before annexation: a bottom–up perspective, Eleanor Knott; Index.