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Black Wind, White Snow: The Rise of Russia's New Nationalism Hardcover – 1 Mar 2016

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  • Hardcover: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Yale University Press; 1 edition (1 Mar. 2016)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0300120702
  • ISBN-13: 978-0300120707
  • Product Dimensions: 16 x 3.6 x 24.1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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'Panoramic and vivid. Informative and gripping. This is required reading on Russia now.' --Ben Judah, author of Fragile Empire: How Russia Fell In and Out of Love with Vladimir Putin

'Nationalism - but not as we know it. Part poetic exercise, part proto-fascism, Eurasianism is the old-new idea eating away the Russian soul and spreading throughout Europe. Clover's book is an intellectual adventure into a dangerous ideological Wonderland.' --Peter Pomerantsev, author of Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russia

'Essential reading. Charles Clover expertly traces how thinkers from Russia's nationalist fringe infiltrated the highest levels of Putin's Kremlin and helped set Russian foreign policy on its current dangerous course.' --Andrew S. Weiss, Vice President for Studies, Russia and Eurasia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

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Charles Clover is the Financial Times's China correspondent, and was previously its Moscow bureau chief. He was the 2011 British Press Awards Foreign Reporter of the Year and won a 2011 Martha Gellhorn Special Award for Journalism for his work on Russian nationalism, and also received a RIA Novosti PressZvanie Award in 2014.

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5.0 out of 5 starsEurasianism Is Putin's Buzz Word.
By Dr Barry Clayton TOP 500 REVIEWER on 7 May 2016
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This is in some ways a unique bookfor in order to write it Clover had to spend hours in the company of some very dubious Russian characters. Some were members of a political mafia employed by Putin to attack and beat up any member of the opposition-shades of the SA.

In1904 Halford Mackinder published his 'The geographical pivot of history' and his concept of the Heartland. He predicted that the Heartland, the core of Euro-Asia-would be contested territory in the conflct for world dominance in the twentieth century.

His views set out a key concern of western defence policy, the fear that the landmass of Euro-Asia would fall under the control of one power, which would enable it to exercise global domination. His Pivot paper depicted history in the future being a struggle between land power and sea power. After the Great War he restated his ideas in his book 'Democratic Ideals and Reality'. The Pivot was renamed the Heartland and enlarged to include the Black Sea and much of the Baltic. He warned that 'who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island: who rules the World-island commands the World'.

Prior to the Presidency of Putin, Mackinder was dismissed in Russia as an imperialist. Today, in Russia his geopolitical ideas are widely written about and studied. Clover describes in this fascinating account how Putin, who did a seven year stint in the KGB in Dresden, has described his proposed Eurasian Union as a chance for the former Soviet Union to become an independent centre of global development, rather than the periphery of Europe or Asia. Over the past sixteen years Putin has used force to try and bring this about.

Since becoming President, he has made it very clear that he will not settle for his vast country being on the fringes of power.Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsPedantic? Possibly...
By dave on 19 Sept. 2016
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OK, I haven't read it yet. But I think it is a shame that the book's title is a mistake. The opening lines of Blok's poem 'The Twelve' translate as 'Black night, white snow, wind, wind!' The Russian word night (or evening) iis 'vecher'; the word for wind is the similar sounding 'vetyer' – the two words make a kind of rhyme in the line quoted above, Someone has misremembered Blok, or misheard the line, and elevated their error to the book's title.
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4.0 out of 5 starsslow to start, but rivetting by the end: ...
By Mr Louis on 10 Jun. 2016
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slow to start, but rivetting by the end: I didn't want this vital book to finish, as it provided new insight on Russian approach to intenational relations/ expansion ambitions
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5.0 out of 5 starsProphetic!
By Corri on 25 May 2016
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A frighteningly prophetic book! Very well written by a man who knows his subject and has gone to great lengths to meet and talk to Russia's movers and shakers.
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5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars
By Frank Esmann on 12 April 2016
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Excellent book, a must read for anybody who wants to understand the new Russian nationalism.
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