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'Savages' and 'exploiters': Exploring anti‐colonial violence in the time of war and revolution.
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Studies In Ethnicity & Nationalism . Dec2021, Vol. 21 Issue 3, p240-259. 20p. - Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- The paper explores the nature of inter‐ethnic, anti‐colonial violence during the First World War and the Russian Revolution (1914–1921). It adopts a comparative approach by juxtaposing the 1916 uprising in Russian Central Asia – specifically, in the Semirech'e oblast – against the anti‐Mennonite pogroms carried out by the Ukrainian peasantry in 1919. The analysis demonstrates that the imperial state, although a significant factor, exercises a highly ambiguous influence: in one case it becomes an enabler of violence, whereas in another it poses an obstacle to it. Furthermore, the paper questions the conventional wisdom of presenting Russia's long crisis as a two‐part process of state disintegration and subsequent state reconstitution; regional dynamics, especially the power relations between the colonized and the colonizers, need to be taken into account if one intends to construct a more comprehensive history of that period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14738481
- Volume :
- 21
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Studies In Ethnicity & Nationalism
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 154442659
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/sena.12353