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
7/29 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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Russia’s Colonial Allergy
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"
