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Stephen Hutchings and Vera Tolz Nation, Ethnicity and Race on Russian Television Russia, one of the most ethno-culturally diverse countries in the world, provides a rich case study on how globalization and associated international trends are disrupting and causing the radical rethinking of approaches to inter-ethnic cohe- sion. The book highlights the importance of television broadcasting in shaping national discourse and the place of ethno-cultural diversity within it. It argues that television’s role here has been reinforced, rather than diminished, by the rise of new media technologies. Through an analysis of a wide range of news and other television programmes, the book shows how the covert meanings of discourse on a particular issue can diverge from the overt significance attributed to it, just as the impact of that dis- course may not conform with the original aims of the broadcasters. The book discusses the tension between the imperative to maintain security through cen- tralized government and overall national cohesion that Russia shares with other European states, and the need to remain sensitive to, and to accommodate, the needs and perspectives of ethnic minorities and labour migrants. It compares the increasingly isolationist popular ethno-nationalism in Russia, which harks back to ‘old-fashioned’ values, with the similar rise of the Tea Party in the United States and the UK Independence Party in Britain. Throughout, this extremely rich, well-argued book complicates and challenges received wisdom on Russia’s recent descent into authoritarianism. It points to a regime struggling to negotiate the dilemmas it faces, given its Soviet legacy of ethnic particularism, weak civil society, large native Muslim population and over- bearing, yet far from entirely effective, state control of the media. Stephen Hutchings is Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester, UK. Vera Tolz is Sir William Mather Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester, UK. BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies Series Editor: Richard Sakwa, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent Editorial Committee: Roy Allison, St Antony’s College, Oxford Birgit Beumers, Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, University of Aberystwyth Richard Connolly, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham Terry Cox, Department of Central and East European Studies, University of Glasgow Peter Duncan, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London Zoe Knox, School of History, University of Leicester Rosalind Marsh, Department of European Studies and Modern Languages, University of Bath David Moon, Department of History, University of York Hilary Pilkington, Department of Sociology, University of Manchester Graham Timmins, Department of Politics, University of Birmingham Stephen White, Department of Politics, University of Glasgow Founding Editorial Committee Member: George Blazyca, Centre for Contemporary European Studies, University of Paisley This series is published on behalf of BASEES (the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies). The series comprises original, high-quality, research- level work by both new and established scholars on all aspects of Russian, Soviet, post-Soviet and East European Studies in humanities and social science subjects. 1 Ukraine’s Foreign and Security 12 Small-Town Russia Policy, 1991–2000 Postcommunist livelihoods Roman Wolczuk and identities: a portrait of the Intelligentsia in Achit, 2 Political Parties in the Bednodemyanovsk and Russian Regions Zubtsov, 1999–2000 Derek S. Hutcheson Anne White 3 Local Communities and Post- 13 Russian Society and the Communist Transformation Orthodox Church Edited by Simon Smith Religion in Russia after Communism 4 Repression and Resistance in Zoe Knox Communist Europe 14 Russian Literary Culture in J.C. Sharman the Camera Age The word as image 5 Political Elites and the Stephen Hutchings New Russia Anton Steen 15 Between Stalin and Hitler Class war and race war on the 6 Dostoevsky and the Idea of Dvina, 1940–46 Russianness Geoffrey Swain Sarah Hudspith 16 Literature in Post-Communist 7 Performing Russia – Folk Russia and Eastern Europe Revival and Russian Identity The Russian, Czech and Slovak Laura J. Olson fiction of the changes, 1988–98 Rajendra A. Chitnis 8 Russian Transformations Edited by Leo McCann 17 The Legacy of Soviet Dissent Dissidents, democratisation and 9 Soviet Music and Society under radical nationalism in Russia Lenin and Stalin Robert Horvath The baton and sickle 18 Russian and Soviet Film Edited by Neil Edmunds Adaptations of Literature, 1900–2001 10 State Building in Ukraine Screening the word The Ukranian parliament, Edited by Stephen Hutchings and 1990–2003 Anat Vernitski Sarah Whitmore 19 Russia as a Great Power 11 Defending Human Rights in Dimensions of security under Russia Putin Sergei Kovalyov, dissident and Edited by Jakob Hedenskog, Human Rights Commissioner, Vilhelm Konnander, Bertil 1969–2003 Nygren, Ingmar Oldberg and Emma Gilligan Christer Pursiainen 20 Katyn and the Soviet Massacre 30 The Transformation of Urban of 1940 Space in Post-Soviet Russia Truth, justice and memory Konstantin Axenov, Isolde Brade George Sanford and Evgenij Bondarchuk 21 Conscience, Dissent and 31 Western Intellectuals and the Reform in Soviet Russia Soviet Union, 1920–40 Philip Boobbyer From Red Square to the Left Bank 22 The Limits of Russian Ludmila Stern Democratisation 32 The Germans of the Emergency powers and states Soviet Union of emergency Irina Mukhina Alexander N. 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