Reluctant Siblings: Methodological Musings on the Complicated Relationship between Postcolonialism and Postcommunism
O frăţie cu rezerve: consideraţii metodologice despre relaţia complicată dintre postcolonialism şi postcomunism

Summary/Abstract: The coloniality of former Soviet republics and satellites presents critics with both ideological and epistemic embarrassment and it has generally been met with reserve in academic circles. Though Soviet colonial imperialism has been amply documented, scholarly overviews of colonialism as a general subject blatantly disregard it, yielding a distorted, Westcentric picture of colonialism as a theoretical category. This article sheds light on the possible causes for this reticence and proposes methodological clarifications regarding the ambiguity of the term colonialism and the complications that arise from the problematic position of East European communism.

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