“Red and Brown”: Left-Patriotism in Russia, its Ideology and Social Base, 1993-2021
This event will be held virtually as a Zoom meeting: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/97955477217. In the brief civil war that followed the collapse of the USSR, Boris Yeltsin’s pro-Western government was opposed by a strange coalition that the neoliberal media called “the communofascists” or “the red- and-browns.” These clichés were part of a campaign to discredit and de-humanize the resistance to the radical…