The topic of the issue is 'Elites and Masses: Contempt, Indifference, and Hatred'
How conflicting are relations between the elites and the masses? What words should be used to describe relations between the masses and the elites – is it distrust, mutual hatred, indifference, mutual understanding? Can anti-elite feelings rally the masses and give birth to a new political subject? Are there any groups in the political sphere that are capable of playing on this anti-elite sentiment?
In the issue, these and many other questions shall be answered by:
Richard Pipes, an American academic specialising in Russian history; John Milbank, a theologian and the Director of the Centre of Theology and Philosophy at the University of Nottingham (UK); Dmitry Butrin, the Head of the Economic Policy Department of the newspaper Kommersant; Bo Zhiyue, a Professor at the East Asian Institute of the National University of Singapore; Adrian Pabst, a Professor at the University of Kent (UK); Dmitry Yuriev, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the St. Petersburg branch of the party ‘United Russia’; Ilya Kalinin, Editor-in-chief of the magazine Neprikosnovennij Zapas; Michael Kazin, the co-editor of the magazine Dissent; Fedor Girenok, a philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Moscow State University; and Oleg Nemenskiy, a political scientist, historian and Member of the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Science.
Gleb Pavlovsky
THE THEATRE OF HATRED AND RUSSIA AS A THEATRE LOVER
Dmitry Butrin
ABSTRACT HATRED AND DESIRE FOR SYMPATHY
BO ZHIYUE
THE GOOD AND THE BAD
Michael Kazin
THE OLD TRADITION OF POPULISM
ALEXEY KUZMIN
THE CHALLENGE OF REINSTATING THE STATE
RICHARD PIPES
CRITICISM HINDERS THE PROGRESS OF WORK
Oleg Nemensky
POLISH HATRED
John Milbank, Adrian Pabst
POLITICS HAS STOPPED BEING DEMOCRATIC
ALAN WOLFE
MOBILIZING WHITE PEOPLE
ALEXANDER RAHR
EUROPEAN STABILITY
Steven Fish
HATRED AND INTELLECTUAL SNOBBERY
Rinat Mukhametov
THE RESOURCE OF POLITICAL HATRED IS ACCUMULATING
VLADIMIR NESTERENKO
ENVY AS A SOURCE OF HATRED
DMITRY OLSHANSKY
THERE IS NOBODY TO LEAD A BREWING PROTEST
Duncan McDonnell
THE VIRUS OF POPULISM
Fedor Girenok
WHATEVER THE ELITES DO IS LAUGHABLE
Dmitry Yuriev
THE CHALLENGE OF PREVENTING DEPOLITISATION
Ilya Kalinin
THE RULERS DON’T WANT TO, THE LOWER CLASSES REMAIN POWERLESS
SERGEY CHERNYSHEV
WORSE THAN HATRED
Daniele Albertazzi
THE TIMES OF STEEP EXPECTATIONS
Dan Gardner
FEAR IS THE BEST TOOL
