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Internal Colonization - Russia's Imperial Experience (Hardcover, New)
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Internal Colonization - Russia's Imperial Experience (Hardcover, New)
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This book gives a radically new reading of Russia’s cultural
history. Alexander Etkind traces how the Russian Empire conquered
foreign territories and domesticated its own heartlands, thereby
colonizing many peoples, Russians included. This vision of
colonization as simultaneously internal and external, colonizing
one’s own people as well as others, is crucial for scholars of
empire, colonialism and globalization. Starting with the fur trade,
which shaped its enormous territory, and ending with Russia’s
collapse in 1917, Etkind explores serfdom, the peasant commune, and
other institutions of internal colonization. His account brings out
the formative role of foreign colonies in Russia, the
self-colonizing discourse of Russian classical historiography, and
the revolutionary leaders’ illusory hopes for an alliance with
the exotic, pacifist sectarians. Transcending the boundaries
between history and literature, Etkind examines striking writings
about Russia’s imperial experience, from Defoe to Tolstoy and
from Gogol to Conrad. This path-breaking book blends together
historical, theoretical and literary analysis in a highly original
way. It will be essential reading for students of Russian history
and literature and for anyone interested in the literary and
cultural aspects of colonization and its aftermath.
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