Download or read book Slavophiles and Commissars written by J. Devlin and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-05-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines contemporary Russian nationalism as it reemerged in the wake of Gorbachev's liberalisation. The book argues that the new nationalism provided opponents of reform with an apparently novel justification for their hostility to the liberalisation inaugurated by Gorbachev and erratically pursued by Yeltsin.