6/12While the Kremlin often contrastsRussia's purportedly "anti-colonial" expansion inthe19th century with the violent British conquest of India, War Minister Chernyshev in1842proposed subjugating the Caucasus the British way to minimize bloodshed. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1800869503062175861.html
2016.12.19 It was the Bolsheviks who espoused anti-colonialism most wholeheartedly,& we have to turn to the Soviet period to understand why most Russians are so resistant to the idea that their empire was colonial./ These2factors – the lack of integration into the Empire and the expropriation of
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Russia’s Colonial Allergy
Tropics of Tsardom: Plants and Empire in the South Caucasus, 1800s–1917
