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
Kaulbars was also famous for his service in Turkestan – as an active member of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society, he was a colonial officer and explorer at the same time. Few know that he also sought to mobilize Ukrainian patriotism in the service of empire./
“What was Ukraine’s experience under the Russian rule? Looking at it through non-human actors can bring striking insights into the tsarist society’s racial stereotypes and their legacies.on how imperial Russia came to believe that animals passed on their qualities to humans. 1/”
As promised, I'm sharing my master's thesis on Ukrainian perspectives of Russian colonialism. But I should offer a caveat— in many ways, it is a response to russophilic area studies departments. It's not a full exploration of the topic, although I would love to continue it.
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/
7/20 It can't be more symbolic than that. In 1907, tsarist diplomacy vowed to "respect independence of Persia." In 2 years, Russian troops invaded Iran to crack down on the revolution. As one Tehran-based tsarist clerk noted, "to respect (its sovereignty) does not mean to support it."
7/29 Lavrov is trying to woo Africa by saying that Russia has never been implicated in colonialism. As someone who has been studying #RussianColonialism for years, I went through some sources to let imperial Russia speak for itself. Yes, "Россия" and "колония" are tied together./
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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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"
Oleksandr Polianichev on Twitter: "It can't be more symbolic than that. In 1907, tsarist diplomacy vowed to "respect independence of Persia." In 2 yea… https://t.co/OKqx0ZWi7e"
Oleksandr Polianichev on Twitter: "Lavrov is trying to woo Africa by saying that Russia has never been implicated in colonialism. As someone who has b… https://t.co/LLhmC91f2s"
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"
Nata Druhak on Twitter: "1/ A director of the Hermitage Museum Mikhail Piotrovsky gave an interview admitting "imperial tradition" and "self… https://t.co/Eg092WKH3J"
Casey Michel 🇰🇿 on Twitter: "This is essentially right. The “Moscow was humiliated” framing is ridiculous in the light of the fact that the Krem… https://t.co/qFoYxnMxks"