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Tag: Coloniality in the Post-Soviet Sphere

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Teaching Eastern Europe Through A Decolonial Lens. Interview with Anna Hájková and Oksana Dudko – 26 November 2025

Why has Eastern Europe been absent from studies of decolonial history? Historians Oksana Dudko and Anna Hájková discuss.

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Patriarchy, Policy, and Nationhood – 23 October 2025

In this episode of Yurt Jurt, host Diana Kudaibergen speaks with Aizada Arystanbek, a gender researcher whose work explores the intersection of patriarchy, policy, and

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Oyan, Qazaqstan and The Kazakh Spring. Interview with Asem Zhapisheva – 2 October 2025

In this episode of Yurt Jurt, host Diana Kudaibergen sits down with Asem Zhapisheva, journalist, activist, and a founding member of the civic movement Oyan,

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Articles

The History of Aggression in Asia That Moscow Wants to Erase, by Oleksandr Polianichev – 9 May 2025

Today, Tehran, Pyongyang and Beijing support the Kremlin’s war effort while it poses as anti-imperialist — but Iran, China, and Korea were once the prey

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Teaching Eastern Europe in the Age of Russia’s Imperial Invasions: A Conversation on Being Postcolonial When No One Takes Any Notice, by Oksana Dudko and Anna Hájková – 2 May 2025

This article first appeared in History Workshop Journal.

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Joe Grim Feinberg on Rethinking Colonialism and Imperialism – 12 January 2025

00:00:00 Introduction and background information00:03:40 Joe introduces himself and his work00:05:35 Nationalism and internationalism00:06:44 Imperialism and colonialism00:08:42 Recapitulation of the main points of Joe’s article00:21:44

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Mounting Socialism on Camel’s Back. An Interview with Sarah Cameron on the Famine in Kazakhstan – 22 November 2024

Sarah Cameron is an American historian at the University of Maryland. Her research interests include the history of crimes against humanity, environmental issues, and the

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Podcasts

What is Yurt Jurt? – 29 October 2024

From Yurt Jurt: In this first episode, we introduce ourselves and the mission behind the Yurt Jurt. We’re here to explore why the term “post-Soviet”

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Articles

Coloniality or Imperiality (in Eastern Europe, for Example), by Joseph Grim Feinberg – 3 April 2024

At a conference in Prague this past spring (May 2023), a prominent theorist of colonialism and coloniality spoke to us via video chat from his

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Putin’s Russia and Peripheral Imperialism, by Anatoly Kropivnitskyi – 20 December 2023

Why is Russian aggression in Ukraine imperialist? How is it possible to interpret it based on Lenin’s analysis of imperialism, and how do these interpretations

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Articles

(En)Countering epistemic imperialism: A critique of “Westsplaining” and coloniality in dominant debates on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, by Tereza Hendl, Olga Burlyuk, Mila O’Sullivan & Aizada Arystanbek – 4 December 2023

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Russia’s Ethnic Minorities in the Struggle against Cultural Imperialism, by Vlada Baranova and Tsypylma Darieva – 5 April 2023

For years, Russia’s ethnic minorities have been subject to an increasingly restrictive one-language policy. At the same time, they are being instrumentalised in the war

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Statements

Nothing About Us Without Us. An Open Letter From Russia’s ​Indigenous and Decolonial Activists – 3 April 2023

Russia’s invasion of sovereign Ukraine opened the eyes of many to the imperial nature of the Russian state. The expansion of the empire and strengthening

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Russian Imperialism, by Zbigniew Marcin Kowalewski – 27 November 2014

Sergey Nikolsky, a Russian philosopher of culture, says that perhaps the most important idea for Russians “from the fall of Byzantium until today is the

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