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
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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https://www.salon.com/2023/07/29/how-russian-colonialism-took-the-western-anti-imperialist-left-for-a-ride/
Tropics of Tsardom: Plants and Empire in the South Caucasus, 1800s–1917
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"
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"
