EUGENE M. AVRUTIN Racism in Modern Russia. From the Romanovs to Putin (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), 161 pp.

Abstract

Eugene M. Avrutin is an essayist and professor at the University of Illinois. His book Racism in Modern Russia provides a chronological overview of racism and xenophobic manifestations that connect the Tsar period, the Soviet Union, and post-Soviet Russia under Vladimir Putin.
The book is included in “Russian Shorts,” a collection of specialized publications on Russian historical and cultural studies. This volume traces a clear trajectory of racism in key periods of Russian history, especially in the post-Soviet period. The analysis is divided into four short and easily readable chapters.