Creating the Peasant as Other: Self-colonisation in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union
Journal: The Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History
Year: 2023

The text discusses Alexander Etkind’s controversial work,Internal Colonization: Russia’s Imperial Experience(2011), andproposes a way to study the Russian Imperial structures interms of self-colonisation without diminishing theimportance of Russia’s colonisation and subjugation ofindigenous peoples in Siberia, Central Asia or the Caucasus.It proposes to study the colonisation of the self, not assimilar to the colonisation of peoples deemed in colonialdiscourse to be other, but rather as the subj