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https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-war-ukraine-western-academia/32201630.html>
"When more than 2,000 Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies specialists
from around the world gather in Philadelphia later this year for their largest
annual conference, Russia's invasion of Ukraine will dominate the discussion —
or loom large over the proceedings, at the very least.
In Ukraine, Moscow's unprovoked war has killed tens of thousands of people and
laid cities and towns to waste. At universities across the West, it has thrust
Russia's history of imperialism and colonialism to the forefront of Slavic and
Eurasian academic discussion — from history and political science to art and
literature.
The war is forcing scholars, departments, and university officials to question
how they teach the history of Russia, the former Soviet Union, and the region,
what textbooks and sources they use, whom they hire, which archives they mine
for information, and even what departments should be named."
Via Cass M, who wrote "Speaking from a position of total ignorance on my
part…doesn’t the Russian Empire imply colonialism of separate countries. When
the USSR dissolved those countries would have re-established their cultural
identity. Sure borders shift but culturally they are separate people. Do these
historians also deny the existence of Poland?"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
