"Ilya Budraitskis, one of Russia's most prominent leftist political commentators, explores the strange fusion of free-market ideology and postmodern nationalism that now prevails in his home country, and describes the post-Soviet evolution of the left there"-- Provided by publisher.

"Several of the essays in this volume are drawn from Budraitskis's book Dissidenty sredi dissidentov, which won the prestigious Andrei Bely Prize when it appeared in 2017. The rest have been selected from across a body of work written since 2014."--Introduction.

Putin lives in the world that Huntington built --The spectres of Munich -- Intellectuals and the 'New Cold War' -- A genealogy of Russian anti-Americanism -- The extraordinary adventures of Guy Fawkes -- Contradictions in Russian cultural politics -- The terrible power of obviousness : reading Ivan Ilyin -- The eternal hunt for the red man -- Order in disorder -- Dissidents among dissidents -- The Khrushchev era -- After the thaw -- The right turn and the 1970s -- The post-Soviet left : an inheritance without a testament -- The intelligentsia as a style.