2016.12.19 It was the Bolsheviks who espoused anti-colonialism most wholeheartedly,& we have to turn to the Soviet period to understand why most Russians are so resistant to the idea that their empire was colonial./ These2factors – the lack of integration into the Empire and the expropriation of
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Russia’s Colonial Allergy
Tropics of Tsardom: Plants and Empire in the South Caucasus, 1800s–1917
