Être patriote dans la Russie postsoviétique

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Being a Patriot in Post-Soviet Russia Multiple forms of patriotic affection are expressed in the space of “dispute” represented by the Russian blogosphere. To the degree that it can be taken as a privileged point for observing the evolution of the relationship between governors and governed in present day Russia, the coexistence there of arguments describing love of country as either impossible or imperative raises two central questions : what is the basis of resistance to “patriotism from above” and how is a “patriotism from below” pieced together ? Particular attention is here given to traits that run counter to the cliché of a fusion between state and society : the domestic-intimist expression of patriotic feelings and their ego-centric dimension, which together outline a new sovereign subject and are evidence of a shifting political culture. As the protests against electoral fraud in winter 2011-12 showed, the latter has in particular expressed itself via the emergence of a critical patriotism. ?