BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Department of History//NONSGML Events//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://history.ubc.ca/events/event/
X-WR-CALDESC:Department of History - Events
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20200108T0649Z-1578466179.8933-EO-16530-23@137.82.45.12
STATUS:CONFIRMED
DTSTAMP:20260721T131415Z
CREATED:20200107T225450Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200107T232041Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20200206T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20200206T140000
SUMMARY: “Where Russia was “Ahead” of Europe: Russia’s State Colonialism in
  Comparative Perspective
DESCRIPTION: This paper addresses an unusual knot of Russian historiography
 : was Russia a colonial empire and if so\, why did the authorities consiste
 ntly refuse to identify the empire as such? By examining the Russian empire
  in the broad comparative perspective of both European and Asian empires\, 
 the argument will show that in its Asian territories Russia […]
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <p>This paper addresses an unusual knot of Ru
 ssian historiography: was Russia a colonial empire and if so\, why did the 
 authorities consistently refuse to identify the empire as such? By examinin
 g the Russian empire in the broad comparative perspective of both European 
 and Asian empires\, the argument will show that in its Asian territories Ru
 ssia practiced a form of state colonialism and that it began to do so earli
 er than most European empires. It will also consider the reasons for Russia
 's denial of its colonial nature.</p><p>Michael Khodarkovsky is a Professor
  of History at Loyola University Chicago. He grew up in Kiev\, Ukraine and 
 attended the Kalmyk State University in Russia at a time when few could ima
 gine that both Soviet republics one day would have contested state borders.
  In 1979\, he immigrated to the US\, where he finally had the opportunity t
 o pursue his passion: history. He received his Ph.D. from the University of
  Chicago in 1987. Since then he has written four books and co-edited one\, 
 most of which are concerned with various aspects of Russian imperial expans
 ion and rule over the non-Christian peoples\, transformation of frontiers i
 nto borderlands and of non-Christians into Russian subjects. His current pr
 oject seeks to examine Russia in the context of the neighboring empires in 
 Asia: Ottoman\, Persian\, Mughal\, and Chineseю It is titled Empires of the
  Steppe: The Russian Empire and its Eurasian Counterparts\, 1500-1800s.</p>
 <p> </p><p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-16531 size-medium_large" src="h
 ttps://hist.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2020/01/Alexei-jpeg
 -768x994.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="802" /></p>
CATEGORIES:Featured Events,Featured Homepage
LOCATION:Buchanan Tower - room 1197
GEO:49.268580;-123.253452
URL;VALUE=URI:https://history.ubc.ca/events/event/where-russia-was-ahead-of
 -europe-russias-state-colonialism-in-comparative-perspective/
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hist.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2020/01/pic-for-website-alexei.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Vancouver
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
DTSTART:20191103T090000
TZNAME:PST
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
END:VCALENDAR