How to build a nation: ethnosocial management and academic science in a problem field of state national policy

The paper presents an analysis of strategic planning documents in the field of ethnic politics of post-Soviet Russia. A case study of a legislative initiative known as the “law on the Russian nation” is considered. It is concluded that the reception of nationalism in the practice of ethnosocial management is the result of borrowing Westernized models of ethnic diversity management.

Keywords: national politics, civil society, academic science, ethnosocial management, governing influence.