Russia's Skinheads: Exploring and Rethinking Subcultural Lives

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.

Author: Hilary Pilkington,Al'bina Garifzianova,Elena Omel'chenko
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 03/19/2013
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.64d
ISBN: 9780415634564

About the Author

Hilary Pilkington is former Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, and former Director of the Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Birmingham. She is now a Professor in Sociology at the University of Manchester.

Elena Omel'chenko is Professor of Sociology and Head of Department of Sociology at the Higher School of Economics, St Petersburg, and Director of the Scientific Research Centre Region, Ul'ianovsk.

Al'bina Garifzianova is a Senior Research Fellow at the Scientific Research Centre Region, Ul'ianovsk.