Russia's Skinheads: Exploring and Rethinking Subcultural Lives

by Al'bina Garifzianova, Elena Omel'Chenko, Hilary Pilkington

Book Overview

Russia's Skinheads: Exploring and Rethinking Subcultural Lives provides a thorough examination of the phenomenon of skinheads, explaining its nature and its significance, and assessing how far Russian skinhead subculture is the 'lumpen' end of the extreme nationalist ideological spectrum. There are large numbers of skinheads in Russia, responsible for a significant number of xenophobic attacks, including 97 deaths in 2008 alone, making this book...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415634563
• ISBN13: 9780415634564
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"