Russia: Colonial, anticolonial, postcolonial Empire?
| Autor: | Maxim Khomyakov |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
History
media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 0507 social and economic geography General Social Sciences Empire Library and Information Sciences Ancient history Colonialism 050701 cultural studies 0506 political science 050602 political science & public administration Colonization media_common |
| Zdroj: | Social Science Information. 59:225-263 |
| ISSN: | 1461-7412 0539-0184 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0539018420929804 |
| Popis: | This article is devoted to the discussion of Russian colonial and anti-colonial social imaginaries. It starts by delving into the definitions of colony and colonization, and proceeds to the analysis of the colonial experience of the Russian continental Empire. The internal colonization thesis is also analyzed in the context of the imperial reality. The complex Soviet experience is understood as, on the one hand, a radical break with the past, through decolonization and anti-colonialism. The author, on the other hand, agrees with those who claim that Stalinism can also be understood in terms of an internal colonialism theory. This article, however, emphasizes the metaphoric nature of the internal colonialism arguments. In conclusion, the author describes different features of Russian colonial/anti-colonial experience as aspects of what he calls the modernity of control and what he describes as the dominance of the rational mastery discourses over imaginary signification of autonomy. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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