This important book analyzes the dubious role of the so-called Democratic Antifascist Youth Movement `Nashi´ in contemporary Russia.

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Ivo Mijnssen, M.A., is a doctoral researcher at the Basel Graduate School of History. He currently holds a Gerda Henkel Foundation Scholarship and is working on his dissertation Life in the Hero City: The Post-War Generation During the Brezhnev Era. He studied at Brown University, the University of Basel, and at Stanford University. He contributed a chapter to the collected volume Identities and Politics during the Putin Presidency (ibidem-Verlag, 2009) and writes for various newspapers and websites about Russia.