Faure’s wide-ranging and penetrating research traces the evolution of Russian conservative intellectuals from their informal ideological pursuits in the 1970s to their involvement in policymaking under Russian President Vladimir Putin. The book focuses on the various proponents of what the author calls “modernist conservatism”: Orthodox monarchists, imperialists, Eurasianists, and others united by vehement anti-Westernism and a commitment to an alternative, specifically Russian model of