Russian chauvinism

* “Russia: Police Round Up Migrant Workers” https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/12/24/russia-police-round-migrant-workers#
* “Russian sanctions against Moldova. Minor effects, major potential” by Kamil Całus https://www.osw.waw.pl/en/publikacje/osw-commentary/2014-11-06/russian-sanctions-against-moldova-minor-effects-major [EN]
* “Nagorno-Karabakh: The Long Shadow of Joseph Stalin” by Rene Wadlow https://towardfreedom.org/story/archives/europe/nagorno-karabakh-the-long-shadow-of-joseph-stalin/ [EN]
* “Against Imperialism: International Solidarity and Resistance – Endless Struggle” https://mgouldhawke.wordpress.com/2020/07/09/against-imperialism-international-solidarity-and-resistance-endless-struggle-1990/ [EN]
* “Three forms of Russian imperialism: Empire in Russian History” by Kowalewski Zbigniew http://europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article33683 [EN]
* "Soviet Peace Policy" by V. M. Molotov https://www.marxists.org/archive/molotov/1940/peace.htm [EN] (Soviet government)
* “A gateway to Africa: Russia's naval base in Sudan” by Stasa Salacanin https://english.alaraby.co.uk/english/amp/indepth/2020/11/25/a-gateway-to-africa-russias-naval-base-in-sudan [EN]

### **News Articles**

* “Putin says Russia must prevent 'color revolution'” by Darya Korsunskaya https://news.yahoo.com/putin-says-russia-must-guard-against-color-revolutions-135807378.html [EN]
* “Путин: мы не допустим цветных революций в России и странах ОДКБ” https://www.vesti.ru/article/1517969 [RU]
* "Secluded Arctic region rejects Putin in rare protest" https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/secluded-russia-arctic-region-rejects-putin-12916660 [EN] (owned by Mediacorp)

### **Magazine Articles**

* “‘We should recognize that there are other imperialisms’: A Marxist dissident explains what the left gets wrong about Russia” by Charles Davis https://www.salon.com/2015/04/06/we\_should\_recognize\_that\_there\_are\_other\_imperialisms\_a\_marxist\_dissident\_explains\_what\_the\_left\_gets\_wrong\_about\_russia/ [EN] (owned by Salon Media Group)
* “How Stalin Created Some of the Post-Soviet World's Worst Ethnic Conflicts” by Robert Coalson https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/03/how-stalin-created-some-of-the-post-soviet-worlds-worst-ethnic-conflicts/273649/ [EN]
* “Pew Survey: Irredentism Alive and Well in Russia” by Casey Michel https://thediplomat.com/2015/06/pew-survey-irredentism-alive-and-well-in-russia/ [EN] (owned by Trans-Asia Inc.)

### **Blog Posts**

* "Is Russia imperialist? A reply to Roger Annis and Sam Williams" by Louis Proyect https://louisproyect.org/2014/06/22/is-russia-imperialist-a-reply-to-roger-annis-and-sam-williams/ [EN]
* "A return to the question of whether Russia is imperialist" by Louis Proyect https://louisproyect.org/2016/02/09/a-return-to-the-question-of-whether-russia-is-imperialist/ [EN]
* "Anti-Imperialism in the Age of Great Power Rivalry" by Louis Proyect https://louisproyect.org/2019/04/22/anti-imperialism-in-the-age-of-great-power-rivalry/ [EN]
* "The Forest Brothers and the holocaust" by Louis Proyect https://louisproyect.org/2017/07/26/the-forest-brothers-and-the-holocaust/ [EN]
* "The Fencer" by Louis Proyect https://louisproyect.org/2017/07/19/the-fencer/ [EN]

### **Documents**

* "An Unfortunate Document" by V.I. Lenin https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/may/03c.htm [EN]
* "To the Communists of Turkestan" by V.I. Lenin https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1919/nov/10.htm [EN]
* "The European War and International Socialism" by V.I. Lenin https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1914/aug/x02.htm [EN]
* "Defence of Imperialism Cloaked with Deceptive Phrases" by V.I. Lenin https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/may/03b.htm [EN]
* "The Question of Nationalities or 'Autonomisation'" by V.I. Lenin https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1922/dec/testamnt/autonomy.htm [EN]
* "Speech Closing The Debate On The Party Programme" by V.I. Lenin https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1919/rcp8th/04.htm [EN]

### **Encyclopedia**

* “List of Russian military bases abroad” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_Russian\_military\_bases\_abroad [EN]
* "Basmachi movement" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basmachi\_movement [EN]
* "Russification" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russification [EN]

### **Books**

* “Bloodstained: One-hundred years of leninist counter-revolutions” by Friends of Aron Baron https://archive.org/details/BloodstainedOneHundredYearsOfLeninistCounterrevolution [various formats, EN]
* “Peopling the Russian Periphery: Borderland Colonization in Eurasian History” by Nicholas Breyfogle, Abby Schrader, Willard Sunderland https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=08C9699DC0610147585FA363F70B99EF [EPUB, 445kb, EN] https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=4A590583E9CBE7AB33A9C453B1049C57 [PDF, 2MB, EN]
* "Liberating Sápmi: Indigenous Resistance in Europe’s Far North" by Gabriel Kuhn https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=A848F0B1FE93D86DB4320347FBF2A2B1 [EPUB, 5MB, EN]
* “‘The Touch of Civilization’ Comparing American and Russian Internal Colonization” by Steven Sabol https://upcolorado.com/university-press-of-colorado/item/3080-the-touch-of-civilization [EN]
* “Stalinism on the Frontier of Empire: Women and State Formation in the Soviet Far East” by Elena Shulman https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=9C811D008F5F4E3A4B6A7B654FEE2636 [PDF, 7MB, EN]
* “Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union” by Francine Hirsch http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=6B400A1CEEDC23532B5EDFE9D7542E6E [PDF, 24MB, EN]
* “Ethnic and Religious Minorities in Stalin’s Soviet Union New Dimensions of Research” by Andrej Kotljarchuk and Olle Sundström https://sh.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1164774/FULLTEXT02.pdf [PDF, 13MB, EN]
* "Anti-Imperialism in the Age of Great Power Rivalry" by Michael Pröbsting https://www.thecommunists.net/app/download/13699788427/BOOK+Defeatism+in+Imperialist+States\_WEB.pdf?t=1549271088 [PDF, 2.7MB, EN]; https://www.thecommunists.net/theory/anti-imperialism-in-the-age-of-great-power-rivalry/ [HTML, EN] (Trotskyist analysis)
* "The making and breaking of Soviet Lithuania : memory and modernity in the wake of war" by Davoliūtė Violeta https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=5685282B7F0CAAFA7FBB1E59A2E19DC4 [PDF, 7MB, EN]
* "The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923–1939" by Terry Martin http://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=ABBC063092C18372A6E8A44AD1F75597 [PDF, 11MB, EN]
* "The Nature of Soviet Power: An Arctic Environmental History" by Andy Bruno https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=27945F5EA08D0D270714B491DBE31843 [EPUB, 2MB, EN]; https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=623706761275EAF1A60F87640180E3A1 [PDF, 5MB, EN]
* "The Conquest of the Russian Arctic" by Paul R. Josephson https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=10E420D39E63A0159C9860424949C380 [PDF, 3MB, EN]

### **Excerpts**

* "The Nordic Threat: Soviet Ethnic Cleansing on the Kola Peninsula" by Andrej Kotljarchuk http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:748534/FULLTEXT01.pdf [PDF, 3.87MB, EN]

### **Podcast episodes**

* "Soviet Power and the Destruction of Nature" uploaded by SRB Podcast https://soundcloud.com/srbpodcast/srb050 [42:58, EN]

* "Watering the Soviet Lands" uploaded by SRB Podcast https://soundcloud.com/srbpodcast/srbnr01 [1:21:53, EN]
* "Conquering Nature in Sakhalin and the Arctic" uploaded by SRB Podcast https://soundcloud.com/srbpodcast/srbnr02 [1:15:03, EN]

### **Videos**

* “Relations Between Russians & Ukrainians in the USSR During the 80's #ussr #soviet” by USHANKA SHOW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvgSR\_hIb60 [23:44, EN] (Soviet Ukrainian immigrated to USA)
* "Soviet People For and Against the Invasion of Finland - KGB Files" uploaded by KGB Files https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVXQDk8Ukas [13:21, EN SUB, RU SUB, UK SUB, EN]

### **Archived**

* https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1269114982215700483.html [EN] - thread on Soviet imperialism
* Esha from Historic.ly defending Russian imperialism
	+ Asks a critic to compare USSR map with Tsarist Russia map https://archive.vn/YdBIg [EN]
	+ Esha defends Tsarist Russia’s control over Finland https://archive.vn/xQlmz [EN]
	+ Esha doesn’t think Russia is settler colonial at all https://archive.vn/v3Y4S [EN]

### **Quotes**

* “Scratch some Communists and you will find Great Russian chauvinists.” - V.I. Lenin, *Eighth Congress of the R.C.P.(B.) March 18-23, 1919*

### **Notes**

* Russian Federation has military bases in 9 foreign countries, is currently expanding in 2 more
* Russia financially dominates smaller countries: in 2014, approx. 70% of the Moldovan banking sector was controlled by Russian capital, approx 90% of foreign capital was Russian
* Russia exploits labor of migrant workers from Central Asia and Eastern Europe
* “Great Patriotic War” is alluding to the tsarist Patriotic War of 1812, other parts of that appeal to national patriotism was introducing medals in honor of Tsarist generals, bringing back epaulettes and tsarist ranks and reinstating the Moscow Patriarchate. Ironically “Great Patriotic War” and “Second Great Patriotic War” was also used during World War I.