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On the Uses of Decolonial History for Life
Sklokin, Volodymyr
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- Title
- On the Uses of Decolonial History for Life
- Author(s)
- Sklokin, Volodymyr
- Issue Date
- 2024-12-27
- Keyword(s)
- decolonization debate
- eighteenth-century history
- Ukrainian-Russian encounter
- politics of difference
- russification
- cultural entanglement
- Abstract
- This essay provides arguments in favor of decolonizing the field of Russian and East European Studies, focusing on the eighteenth-century history of Ukrainian-Russian relations. It envisages two directions for decolonization: overcoming the traditional narrative of Russian history and rethinking the basic categories we use to tell the history of the Russian Empire. It argues that we should reconsider a one-sided view of empire as an embodiment of the politics of difference and pay more attention to the early modern policies of acculturation and assimilation that took the form of russification in the Russian Empire. It also emphasizes the need to overcome reductionism, typical of traditional national history. The history of the Ukrainian-Russian encounter in the early modern period cannot be presented as a black-and-white narrative of Russian subjugation and repression and Ukrainian resistance. It was a more complex story that also included a dimension of cultural entanglement with strong mutual influences.
- Publisher
- ВИВЛIОθИКА
- Type of Resource
- text
- Language
- eng
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.21900/j.vivliofika.v12.1825
- Copyright and License Information
- Copyright 2024 Volodymyr Sklokin.
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/).
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