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Jun 26, 2022 13 tweets 7 min read Read on X
This cheerful & vivaceous guy...
is V. Inozemtsev - one of "exemplary" Russian gov. critics, endorsed by R. Fuecks (🇩🇪Greens' party) & author at the latter's LibMod. Let's look at his attitudes on Russian colonialism & his plans for 🇷🇺's future. #goodRussians #RussianColonialism Image
It's true, Vladislav Inozemtsev rebukes Putin for what he considers "bad" for Russia's development. Westerners might conclude he refutes Russian imperialism, too, yet that's not the case!
(Looking into 1 article, here - but nasty remarks elsewhere, too)
the-american-interest.com/2017/06/29/rus…
First of all, Inozemtsev restates "colonies" as settler colonies & sets these off against "dependencies" (not using "exploitation colony" as common in scholarly literature). Inferring that Caucasus/Central Asia "should not be counted as colonies, since few colonists lived there." Image
Mixing up chronology (& role of Caucasus" in 🇷🇺Empire), he claims that European powers set up dependencies "after they were deprived of their colonies" & Russia likewise, after exhausting its "supply of colonists", turned to "relying only on military superiority" & dependencies: Image
"Siberia" is a part of 🇷🇺 which V. Inozemtsev wants to keep. He argues for "settler colony" by its Russian population & states "Siberia never tried to secede from Muscovy" & "decolonization" occurs when indigenous people fight (mere!) military domination.
britannica.com/place/Siberia Image
V.I. is factually wrong & with denialist bias.
There were several uprisings, e.g.:
- of Bashkirs 1662-64, 1681–84, 1704-11
- Koryak/Itel'men, 1740s
His "logic" amounts to that where indigenous groups are --ethnically - outnumbered & thus cannot rebel, Russian supremacy's "valid". Image
This is no minority rights/humanist/sovereignty of Russia's colonized—agenda. The "Putin critic" featured by IFRI, DGAP ... clearly embraces imperialism: "For centuries Russia was a nation that tried to expand into neighboring lands. There is nothing shameful [...]." #goodRussian Image
He offers a "consolating myth" reg. Soviet Union's collapse: Russia allegedly dismantled the USSR deliberately, relinquishing mere "dependencies" & toward its own benefit. With purpose of safeguarding Russian population against (racial) intermixtures & loss of national coherence: Image
V. Inozemtsev wants to preserve & rejuvenate a fossile; he favors remodeling the Russian Empire, going by economic rationale: Forgo RF's territories which are a "drag on its economy" ("dependencies") & parry overstretch, but modernize Siberia as profit-oriented "giant colony". Image
Russia is blamed for investing into the Caucasus more than gaining by it; the economist thus taps into the old colonial myth* of "imperial self-sacrifice" or "feeding the Caucasus" - as chauvinist A. Navalny has put it.
(*see Bruce Grant's "The captive and the gift" on this...) ImageImageImageImage
With other words, V. Inozemtsev advocates cutting Russia's losses, while rebuilding a reduced Russian Empire in stronger & more viable way. He replaces "historical ties"-considerations & post-imperial/-Soviet nostalgia with "rational" planning, thus mitigating "Russia's trauma". Image
He also envisages conscious "population policies" for Siberia, promoting an influx of foreign (European) migrants: "One may agree that the Russian Far East needs migrants, but it would be much better if they came from different, and even competing, countries [..]." #goodRussians
V. Inozemtsev even wants to coax "Westerners"/USA into some colonialist partnership, i.e. joint "development" of the Far East. In my regard, this is not too dissimilar to how Vladimir Putin courted the West for an "anti-terrorism alliance" in the early 2000s. #RussianColonialism Image

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