TY  - GEN
A1  - Fürst, Juliane
T1  - The Imperial Imagination of Russians … and its limits
N2  - Among Soviet historians it has become a kind of truism that the Soviet Union was in a permanent state of contradictions and that Soviet society adopted to these contradictions with a variety of survival mechanisms that ranged from ignoring contradictions to circumventing their challenges. One of the most significant contradictions was the tension between the Soviet Union’s self-declared anti-imperialism and anti-colonialism and the fact that it asserted its own imperial and colonial structures, especially in the post-WW II period. Many more qualified people have written on this and debated which of the two elements should be considered primary or how one should characterize the resulting entity. I shall try to address a different question here: What does and did empire mean to Russians, especially vis-à-vis Ukraine?
Y1  - 2024
UR  - https://zeitgeschichte-digital.de/doks/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2754
UR  - https://www.zdbooks.de/dossier-ukraine-2024/fuerst-the-imperial-imaginations-of-russians
SP  - 26
EP  - 32
PB  - ZZF - Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung: zdbooks
CY  - Potsdam
ER  -