Russia’s Grassroot Necropolitics
Journal: Slovo Journal of Slavic Languages Literatures and Cultures
Year: 2026

The notion of death in the artistic, political and military activities of Eduard Limonov’s National Bolshevik Party (aka Other Russia) is examined from a psychoanalytical and a metaphysical viewpoint represented by Freud, Jung and Spielrein, on the one hand, and Aleksandr Dugin and Limonov himself, on the other. Limonov and Zakhar Prilepin serve as representative case studies against the background of the Balkan, Chechen and Ukrainian wars of the 1990s-2020s. Mbembe’s concept of necropolitics pr