here is what's in store for you this week:
(estimated reading time: 6 min)
Why russian warfare isn't a logical strategy. It's a 500-year messianic neurosis — and the interview that maps it out.
The Ukrainian Marxist Lenin personally despised. Dead at 36, erased by the Kremlin, and still the sharpest takedown of russian communist imperialism ever written.
The Qazaq anti-colonial novel the Kremlin buried for 60 years. It resurfaced from the personal archive of the man who killed its author.
The Kazym War: one of the largest anti-colonial uprisings against russia in North Asian history, yet most people abroad have never heard of it. (There's a reason for that.)
A 1941 Holocaust massacre in Ivano-Frankivsk, next to the genocide Ukraine is living through right now. Ukrainian wartime artists refuse to let one memory bury the other — and what does it have to do with decolonisation.
Russian Colonialism 101 is the first newsletter to shed light on Russian colonialism and is part of the Volya Hub network. What is happening to Ukraine has happened many times before, and the rest of the world has been conditioned to overlook or misdiagnose it. This isn’t history. It’s how you stop being shocked by what was always predictable.
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by Jessica Bee, a paying supporter of Russian Colonialism 101.
