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
7/20 https://t.co/0Bf3BOt1rw Second,Russian literature paved the way for the imperial expansion in a very literal sense. Many army officers ended up in the Caucasus corps influenced by Lermontov, Marlinsky, and Pushkin (their memoirs and letters are full of references to their reading experience).5/
これはひどい… These days there is an entire cohort of female scholars from the post-Soviet space who are very good at calculating writing exactly what kind of stuff would secure them jobs at Western universities and think tanks.
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Russia’s Colonial Allergy
Oleksandr Polianichev on Twitter: "Some thoughts on this piece by @yermolenko_v. That European literature in the age of empire was often complicit in… https://t.co/0lri7cIqlg"
Artyom Lukin on Twitter: "This professor, working for a Pentagon university, should be consistent in her thinking. If she wants to "decoloniz… https://t.co/VfkzovrTAb"
