An “empire” without imperialism? A study of the Soviet-colonial dialectic from the October Revolution to its defeat

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dc.contributor.authorStrandlund, Tyson Riel
dc.contributor.supervisorBose, Neilesh
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-22T22:09:54Z
dc.date.available2021-10-22T22:09:54Z
dc.date.copyright2021en_US
dc.date.issued2021-10-22
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of History
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractAn analysis of Soviet history and political thought in the context of imperialism and colonialism This study attempts to clarify problems with dominant liberal narratives and historiography relating to the Soviet Union, particularly relating to questions of empire and colonialism, and instead platforms Third World Marxists and other anti-imperialist scholars and revolutionaries whose views have been effectively sidelined and stifled. By tracing the history of political thought around these questions from pre-revolutionary Marxists through to Cold War era anti-colonial and pan-African scholars and revolutionaries alongside developments in the dynamic and forms of imperialism, and by situating anti-colonial nationalisms in the context of worldmaking rather than state building, this text aims to contribute to analyses of Soviet policy and its relationship to the global history of decolonisation in the 20th Century. This work identifies serious theoretical and ideological deficiencies in existing literature and concludes that concise definitions of imperialism and empire such as those used by V.I. Lenin and Kwame Nkrumah are not consistent with commonly held beliefs about the role played by the Soviet Union in the history of anti-colonial and national liberation movements. Western liberal literature on this subject has suffered significantly as a result of political and ideological prejudices stemming directly from the US Cold War victory and psychological warfare campaigns targeting communist and anti-colonial movements to this end. My research indicates that misidentification and misuse of terms relating to empire and colonialism pose serious obstacles and risks to present and future efforts geared towards global peace and equality which add urgency to the correction of mistakes both in scholarly and popular historical, political, and cultural approaches to interpretations of Soviet history.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/13464
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectSovieten_US
dc.subjectHistoryen_US
dc.subjectDecolonisationen_US
dc.subjectRacismen_US
dc.subjectImperialismen_US
dc.subjectNational Liberationen_US
dc.subjectColonialismen_US
dc.subjectAfricaen_US
dc.subjectAnti-Imperialismen_US
dc.subjectAsiaen_US
dc.subjectCold Waren_US
dc.subjectCommunismen_US
dc.subjectCosmopolitanismen_US
dc.subjectEngelsen_US
dc.subjectEthno-nationalismen_US
dc.subjectEuropean Historyen_US
dc.subjectFascismen_US
dc.subjectGeorge Padmoreen_US
dc.subjectGlobal Historyen_US
dc.subjectHistorical Materialismen_US
dc.subjectHitleren_US
dc.subjectIndiaen_US
dc.subjectKUTVen_US
dc.subjectKwame Nkrumahen_US
dc.subjectLeninen_US
dc.subjectMarxen_US
dc.subjectMarxismen_US
dc.subjectM.N. Royen_US
dc.subjectMarxism-Leninismen_US
dc.subjectNationalismen_US
dc.subjectNazismen_US
dc.subjectNehruen_US
dc.subjectNeocolonialismen_US
dc.subjectOctober Revolutionen_US
dc.subjectPan-Africanismen_US
dc.subjectPhilosophyen_US
dc.subjectPolitical Historyen_US
dc.subjectR. Palme Dutten_US
dc.subjectSocial Democracyen_US
dc.subjectSoviet Unionen_US
dc.subjectSocialismen_US
dc.subjectSocial Historyen_US
dc.subjectsocial fascismen_US
dc.subjectsocial imperialismen_US
dc.subjectTheoretical Historyen_US
dc.subjectUnited Nationsen_US
dc.subjectUSSRen_US
dc.subjectAfghanistanen_US
dc.subjectIndonesiaen_US
dc.subjectGlobalisationen_US
dc.subjectWalter Rodneyen_US
dc.subjectWWIen_US
dc.subjectWWIIen_US
dc.subjectUnited Statesen_US
dc.subjectEmpireen_US
dc.subjectRussian Empireen_US
dc.subjectThird Worlden_US
dc.subjectAnti-Colonialismen_US
dc.titleAn “empire” without imperialism? A study of the Soviet-colonial dialectic from the October Revolution to its defeaten_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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