No. 319: Russian Imperialism and Decolonisation

Author(s): Yury Terekhov, Khanda Namzhil, Alfira Tuktash, Valeria Korablyova, Maryna Kocherzhat
Series Editor(s): Fabian Burkhardt, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perović, Heiko Pleines, Hans-Henning Schröder
Series: Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)
Issue: 319
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich; Research Centre for East European Studies (FSO), University of Bremen; Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES), George Washington University; Center for Eastern European Studies (CEES), University of Zurich
Publication Year: 2024

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.

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