Russia

Colonial, anticolonial, postcolonial Empire

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ID3082263
AuthorsMaxim Khomyakov (0000-0002-1996-9896, National Research University, Russia, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume59
Issue2
Pages225-263
Publication date2020-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Science Information (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0539-0184 • E-ISSN: 1461-7412
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0539018420929804
OpenAlexW3033311332
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited23

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

Ancient history · Archaeology · Autonomy · Colonialism · Decolonization · Empire · Modernity · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · The Imaginary · History · Law · Psychology · Soviet and Russian History

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