Russian Imperialism and Decolonisation

By Yury Terekhov, Khanda Namzhil, Alfira Tuktash, Valeria Korablyova, and Maryna Kocherzhat (Terekhov is a Visiting Scholar at the Fletcher Russia and Eurasia Program)

This issue addresses the complex debate around Russian imperialism and decolonization starting from the related academic literature. The first contribution summarizes the interplay between nationalism and imperialism in modern Russian nationhood. The second contribution addresses a gap in the literature and presents main insights from an empirical study of decolonial activism among (non)Russian anti-war initiatives in Russia. The third contribution conceptualizes imperial sentiment and subaltern rhetoric by placing Russia on the scale of imperial/colonial difference. The last contribution presents the genealogy of the application of postcolonialism to “all things post-Soviet” on the basis of an extensive literature review.

Read the full issue here.

(This post is republished from Russian Analytical Digest.)