Colonialism, post-colonialism and decolonization in the Russian (Soviet) context 3620-KPD-H-OG

general courses

1. Attendance – 10%
- Up to 2 unexcused absences allowed.
- 1 excused absence permitted without penalty.

2. Class Participation – 20%
- Active engagement during sessions can directly influence the final grade positively.

3. **Midterm Project** – 20%

4. Final Assessment (Oral Exam or Essay) – 50%
- If opting for an essay, the following criteria apply:
- Minimum length: 8 pages.
- Clear and precise structure.
- Proper referencing and a bibliography are required.
- The bibliography is not included in the page count.
- No title page.
- A minimum of 7 scholarly sources must be used (e.g., academic publications, monographs, or chapters from monographs).

Selected (basic) papers
Books
in English
Aleksander Etkin, Internal colonization: Russia's imperial experience, Cambridge 2011
Boris Kagarlitsky, Empire of the Periphery: Russia and the World System, Renfrey Clarke (trans), Pluto Press, 2008
Ewa M. Thompson, Imperial Knowledge: Russian Literature and Colonialism, Greenwood Press 2000
Laruelle, M. (Ed.). (2009). Russian Nationalism and the National Reassertion of Russia (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203879726
Madina Tlostanova, What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet?: Decolonial Art from the Ruins of the Soviet Empire (On Decoloniality), Duke University Press Books 2018
Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues: Intersections, Opacities, Challenges in Feminist Theorizing and Practice, Eds. Redi Koobak, Madina Tlostanova, Suruchi Thapar-Björkert, Routledge 2021
Franz, Norbert P., Hollywood – a Challenge for the Soviet Cinema: Four Essays, Universitätsverlag Potsdam, 2020, https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/files/46939/franz_hollywood.pdf
William Partlett and Herbert Küpper, The Post-Soviet as Post-Colonial A New Paradigm for Understanding Constitutional Dynamics in the Former Soviet Empire, Edward Elgar Publishing 2022
Wolff Larry, Inventing Eastern Europe. The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment, Stanford 1994.
Sabol, Steven. “Internal Colonization.” “The Touch of Civilization”: Comparing American and Russian Internal Colonization, University Press of Colorado, 2017, pp. 171–204. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1mtz7g6.9. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.
van der Oye, David Schimmelpenninck, Russian Orientalism: Asia in the Russian Mind from Peter the Great to the Emigration (New Haven, CT, 2010; online edn, Yale Scholarship Online, 31 Oct. 2013), https://doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300110630.001.0001
Taroutina, Maria, and Allison Leigh, eds. Russian Orientalism in a Global Context: Hybridity, Encounter, and Representation, 1740–1940. Manchester University Press, 2023. http://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.12612571.
in Russian
Мадина Тлостанова, Деколониальные гендерные эпистемологии, Маска 2009
in Polish
Andrzej Szeptycki, Florian Gawrycki, Podporządkowanie - niedorozwój - wyobcowanie Postkolonializm a stosunki międzynarodowe, Warszawa 2012
Anton Saifullayeu, Postkolonialne Historiografie. Casus jednego średniowiecza, Warsaw: PAN, 2020
Mykoła Riabczuk, Ukraina, Syndrom postkolonialny, tłum. K. Kotyńska, J. Szlifiński i in., Wrocław – Wojnowice 2015.
Perspektywy postkolonializmu w Polsce, polska w perspektywie postkolonialnej, red. J. Kieniewicz, Artes Liberales 2016
Papers
Linda Martín Alcoff, ‘An Epistemology for the Next Revolution’, TRANSMODERNITY: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World, 2011, 1(2), pp 67-78.
Aliaksei Kazharski, 'Explaining the “Westsplainers”: Can a Western scholar be an authority on Central and Eastern Europe?', available at: https://ukrainian-studies.ca/2022/07/19/explaining-the-westsplainers-can-a-western-scholar-be-an-authority-on-central-and-eastern-europe/
Arnold, Richard, and Karl Manuel Veth. “Racism and Russian Football Supporters’ Culture: A Case for Concern?” Problems of Post-Communism 65, no. 2 (2018): 88–100. doi:10.1080/10758216.2017.1414613.
Botakoz Kassymbekova, “Helpless Imperialists: European State Workers in Soviet Central Asia in the 1920s and 1930s,” Central Asian Survey 30:1, 21-37.
Kassymbekova, Botakoz. “Understanding Stalinism in, from and of Central Asia: Beyond Failure, Peripherality and Otherness.” Central Asian Survey 36, no. 1 (2017): 1–18. doi:10.1080/02634937.2016.1228609.
Bessudnov, Alexey (2023) Descriptive Finding Ethnic and regional inequalities in Russian military fatalities in Ukraine: Preliminary findings from crowdsourced data, DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH 48 (article 31), pp. 883-898, https://www.demographic-research.org/Volumes/Vol48/31/ DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2023.48.31
David Chioni Moore Is the Post- in Postcolonial the Post- in PostSoviet? Toward a Global Postcolonial Critique, PMLA, Vol. 116, No. 1, Special Topic: Globalizing Literary Studies (Jan., 2001), pp. 111-128 (18 pages) https://www.jstor.org/stable/463645
Ewa Thompson, 'On Decolonizing Slavic Studies in Europe and America', Deliberatio, available at: https://deliberatio.eu/en/analyses/on-decolonizing-slavic-studies-in-europe-and-america
Galym Zhussipbek, The Resurrection of Orientalism? The Case of Central Asian States: Attempt To Explore The Intellectual Background of “Borat” Movie and “Nasha Russia”, USAK Yearbook, Vol. 3, 2010, pp 521-525
Ilya Gerasimov, ‘The Belarusian Postcolonial Revolution: Field Reports’, Ab Imperio, 21 (3), 2020, pp 259-272
Ilya Gerasimov, ‘Ukraine 2014: The First Postcolonial Revolution. Introduction to the Forum’, Ab Imperio, 14 (3), 2014
Krishen Mehta, '5 Reasons Why Much Of Global South Isn’t Automatically Supporting The West In Ukraine - OpEd', Eurasia Review, available at: https://www.eurasiareview.com/24022023-5-reasons-why-much-of-global-south-isnt-automatically-supporting-the-west-in-ukraine-oped/
Kudaibergenova, Diana T. “Central Asia in Art: From Soviet Orientalism to the New Republics.” Central Asian Survey 37, no. 2 (2018): 333–36. doi:10.1080/02634937.2018.1433190.
Lora Adams, Can We Apply Postcolonial Theory to Central Asia, Central Asia Studies Review, 2008, vol. 7, nr 1, pp 2-8.
Madina Tlostanova, ‘Between the Russian/Soviet dependencies, neoliberal delusions, dewesternizing options, and decolonial drives’, Cultural Dynamics, 27(2), 2015, pp 267–283
Madina Tlostanova, Postsocialist ≠ postcolonial? On post-Soviet imaginary and global coloniality, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 48(2), 2012, pp 130-142
Marco Vieira, ‘The decolonial subject and the problem of non-Western authenticity’, Postcolonial Studies, 22(2), 2019, pp 150-167.
Mälksoo, Maria. “The Postcolonial Moment in Russia’s War Against Ukraine.” Journal of Genocide Research 25, no. 3–4 (2023): 471–81. doi:10.1080/14623528.2022.2074947.
Müller Martin, Goodbye, Postsocialism!, „Europe-Asia Studies” 2019, vol. 71, Issue 4, s. 533-550.
Hendl, T., Burlyuk, O., O’Sullivan, M., & Arystanbek, A. (2024). (En)Countering epistemic imperialism: A critique of “Westsplaining” and coloniality in dominant debates on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Contemporary Security Policy, 45(2), 171–209. https://doi.org/10.1080/13523260.2023.2288468
Oksana Dudko, ‘Gate-crashing “European” and “Slavic” area studies: can Ukrainian studies transform the fields?’, Canadian Slavonic Papers, 65(2), 2023, pp 174-189
Andrii Portnov, ‘Post-Maidan Europe and the New Ukrainian Studies’, Slavic Review, 74(4), 2015, pp 723-731.
Punsara Amarasinghe, 'Reminiscence of Soviet soft power and the way it influenced the “Global South”', Modern Diplomacy, available at: https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2019/11/02/reminiscence-of-soviet-soft-power-and-the-way-it-influenced-the-global-south/
Pain Emil, The imperial syndrome and its influence on Russian nationalism, [w:] The New Russian Nationalism. Imperialism, Ethnicity and Authoritarianism 2000–15, red. P. Kolstø and H. Blakkisrud, Edinburgh 2016, s.57-64.
Saifullayeu, Anton, “The Need for Decolonisation” 2023. New Eastern Europe 6: 167-174.
Saifullayeu, Anton, Is the Decolonization of Eastern Europe Possible? The Cases of Ukraine and Belarus, The End of the Soviet World? Essays on Post-Communist Political and Social Change, ed. by G. Mink, I. Reichardt, P. Kowal, Ibidem: 2024
Serguei Alex Oushakine, ‘Postcolonial Estrangements: Claiming a Space between Stalin and Hitler’, in Julie Buckler and Emily D. Johnson (eds), Rites of Place: Public Commemoration in Russia and Eastern Europe. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2013
Chari, Sharad, and Katherine Verdery. “Thinking between the Posts: Postcolonialism, Postsocialism, and Ethnography after the Cold War.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 51, no. 1 (2009): 6–34. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27563729.
Serguei Alex. Oushakine, The Colonial Scramble and Its Aftermath: Writing Public Histories of the Postcolonies of Socialism, (Post-)Soviet Experience Through (Post-)Colonial Lenses. Ed. by Anita Frison and Marco Puleri, eSamizdat 2021
Tlostanova, M. (2015). Between the Russian/Soviet dependencies, neoliberal delusions, dewesternizing options, and decolonial drives. Cultural Dynamics, 27(2), 267-283. https://doi.org/10.1177/0921374015585230
Tlostanova Madina, Postsocialist ≠ postcolonial? On post-Soviet imaginary and globalcoloniality, “Journal of Postcolonial Writing” 2012, 48:2, s. 130-142.
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty, Nancy Condee, Harsha Ram, and Vitaly Chernetsky. “Are We Postcolonial? Post-Soviet Space.” PMLA 121, no. 3 (2006): 828–36. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25486358.
Vitaly Chernetsky, ‘Postcolonialism, Russia and Ukraine’, Ulbandus Review, 7, 2003, pp 32–62.
Velychenko, Stephen. "The Issue of Russian Colonialism in Ukrainian Thought. Dependency Identity and Development." Ab Imperio 2002, no. 1 (2002): 323-367. https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2002.0070.
Шнирельман, Виктор. "Мигрантофобия и “Культурный Расизм”." Ab Imperio, vol. 2008 no. 2, 2008, p. 287-323. Project MUSE, https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2008.0065.
Абашин Сергей, Нации и постколониализм в Центральной Азии двадцать лет спустя: переосмысливая категории анализа/практики, „Ab Imperio” 2011, nr 3, s. 193-210.
in Polish
Dorota Kołodziejczyk, Postkolonialny transfer na Europę Środkowo-Wschodnią, "Teksty Drugie” 5, 2010, s 22-39
Ewa Domańska, Badania postkolonialne, [w:] L. Gandhi, Teoria postkolonialna: wprowadzenie krytyczne, tłum. J. Serwański, Poznań 2008
Mykoła Riabczuk, Kolonializm inaczej. O przydatności metodologii postkolonialnej do badań nad Europą postkomunistyczną, tłum. K. Kotyńska, Nowy Prometeusz, 6, 2014, s. 59-73.
Thompson Ewa M., A jednak kolonializm. Uwagi epistemologiczne, „Teksty Drugie” 2011, nr 6, s. 289-303.
Skórczewski Dariusz, Wobec eurocentryzmu, dekolonizacji i postmodernizmu. O niektórych problemach teorii postkolonialnej i jej polskich perspektywach, „Teksty Drugie” 2008, nr 1-2, s. 33-55.

Sources
'Russian Narratives in the Global South: Main Trends', Spravdi, available at: https://spravdi.gov.ua/en/russian-narratives-in-the-global-south-main-trends/
Krishen Mehta, '5 Reasons Why Much Of Global South Isn’t Automatically Supporting The West In Ukraine - OpEd', Eurasia Review, available at: https://www.eurasiareview.com/24022023-5-reasons-why-much-of-global-south-isnt-automatically-supporting-the-west-in-ukraine-oped/
Punsara Amarasinghe, 'Reminiscence of Soviet soft power and the way it influenced the “Global South”', Modern Diplomacy, available at: https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2019/11/02/reminiscence-of-soviet-soft-power-and-the-way-it-influenced-the-global-south/
Ewa Thompson, 'On Decolonizing Slavic Studies in Europe and America', Deliberatio, available at: https://deliberatio.eu/en/analyses/on-decolonizing-slavic-studies-in-europe-and-america (accessed 3 September 2023).
Witold Rodkiewicz, 'An anti-colonial alliance with the Global South. The new ‘Foreign Policy Concept of the Russian Federation', OSW, available at: https://www.osw.waw.pl/en/publikacje/osw-commentary/2023-04-07/anti-colonial-alliance-global-south-new-foreign-policy-concept
Soviet Economic Integration or Industrial Colonialism?, https://ua.boell.org/en/2022/09/01/soviet-economic-integration-or-industrial-colonialism

Information on level of this course, year of study and semester when the course unit is delivered, types and amount of class hours - can be found in course structure diagrams of apropriate study programmes. This course is related to the following study programmes:

• Inter-faculty Studies in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
• Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Computer Science
• Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Mathematics
• Master's degree, second cycle programme, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
• Master's degree, second cycle programme, Computer Science
• Master's degree, second cycle programme, Mathematics

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