Decolonizing minds in the “Slavic area,” “Slavic area studies,” and beyond

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Acknowledgement

For feedback on earlier drafts of this introduction, the author thanks David Aitken, Jessica Rose, Guillaume Sauvé, Matthew Signer, Katherine Zubovich, two anonymous reviewers, and the seven forum contributors.

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Notes

¹ See Sauvé, Subir la victoire; Urban, Rebirth of Politics; and Gel′man, Authoritarian Russia.

² Zayarnyuk, “Historians as Enablers?”

³ Bartlett, “Diderot and the Foreign.”

⁴ For examples of Annaliste or world-systems comparisons, see, McNeill, Europe’s Steppe Frontier; Hechter, Internal Colonialism; and Verdery, “Internal Colonialism.” On globalization as a paradigm, see Hunt, Writing History. For examples of how Russian colonialism has been discussed within the framework of the “imperial turn,” see Etkind, Internal Colonization; and Hirsch, Empire of Nations.

⁵ Gyorgy, “Competitive Patterns of Nationalism”; Isajiw, “Urban Migration”; Silenieks, “Decolonization and Renewal”; Pavlyshyn, “Post-Colonial Features.”

⁶ Engels, “Der magyarische Kampf.”

⁷ Arendt, On Revolution; Tocqueville, Old Regime.

⁸ Goble, “Ukrainians’ Strong Horizontal Ties”; Kryvda, “Viina i ukraïns′ka kul′tura.”

⁹ Bracewell, “Eastern Europe,” 100.

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James Krapfl

James Krapfl is an associate professor of history at McGill University. He is the author or editor of several works on central and eastern European cultural, political, and intellectual history, including the book Revolution with a Human Face: Politics, Culture, and Community in Czechoslovakia, 1989-1992, where he contrasts the imperial and federative principles in times of revolutionary reconstitution.