russia was never "different".
This week's reads attack the Krelim's myth that russia has never been imperial or colonial.
here is what's in store for you this week:
(estimated reading time: 5 min)
What do Odesa and New Orleans have in common? More than you'd ever guess — two ports, two empires, one colonial machine. Oh, and lots of shared slavery insights that russia would hate for you to find out.
How do you win the argument that "russia's empire was different from the real colonial ones"? One word from Central Asia can help.
If Russia had no colonial ministry, as many other Western colonial empires did, was it even an empire? The absence is the answer.
An amazing new project will help you to decolonise your bookshelf and keep being updated on the latest English translations of Ukrainian books.
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