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Introduction. Between arts and politics: A postcolonial view on Baltic cultures of the Soviet era

By Annus E.

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Language
english
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PDF
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1 MB (1065940 bytes)
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Topic
History
Library
twirpx
Time added
2017-08-07 07:01:42
Исторические дисциплины;История России;Новейшая ис

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Article published in the «Journal of Baltic Studies» — 2016 — Vol. 47 — №1. DOI: 10.1080/01629778.2015.1103509Strategies of Soviet colonialism are formed and expressed by colonial discourse – that is, by a network of interconnected statements, ideas, beliefs and subject positions that are institutionally grounded and find expression in different colonial practices. Modern colonial discourse enunciates and continuously (re)creates the colonial situation through the pathos of progress and civilization, whereas the latter are (re)defined through value systems of the colonizing culture. In Soviet colonial discourse, the pathos of progress was presented in terms of a communist value system, which included not only a modification of the Marxist rejection of capitalism but also selected principles of the European Enlightenment embedded in Marxist values and rearticulated by Soviet ideologists.

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