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 Young women in Grozny lined up to meet Education Minister Sergei Kravtsov. When I started writing a connected history of Ukraine and the North Caucasus this wasn't the sort of connection I was eager to see.
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./
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