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Russian Liberals and the Kremlin: Racism and Colonialism as Common Ground, Part II
Despite their conflicting interests and ideologies, every political affiliation across post-Soviet Europe blamed Russian war crimes on the Asian “other.”
Russian Liberals and the Kremlin: Racism and Colonialism as Common Ground, Part I
Russian liberals present themselves as “civilized Europeans” who would like to fix the “backward Asianness” of Russia. By drawing such Orientalist distinctions, these figures justify the existing colonial economic relationship.
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