The end of empire and the problem of neocolonialism - The overlooked empire: Russia

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Why does Soviet Russia escape most discussions of colonialism?

Because it was not a great maritime power, tsarist and Soviet Russia escapes most discussions of colonialism.

Why does the early communist state constitute colonialism?

The anti-imperialist and trans-national rhetoric of the early communist state under Lenin tends to obscure the fact that Russia's land-based Eurasian holdings constituted what was arguably the largest colonial empire in the modern age.

What countries did Russia conquer?

  • The Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were first conquered during the eighteenth century, as were sections of Poland during the protracted carve-up of that beleaguered state before 1800.
  • In Central Asia the Russians acquired Kazakhstan in 1731, and Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Kyrgystan during the nineteenth century.
  • Since the time of Catherine the Great, Russia had had strong ambitions in the south, absorbing Ukraine, eastern Armenia, northern Azerbaijan, and Georgia.
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What was nationalism for the Soviet regime?

The rhetoric of nationalism was anathema to the post-1945 Soviet regime, inasmuch as it threatened to undermine the Communist Party's claim to transnational worker solidarity.

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