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5 things to know about Russian imperialism | Ep. 201

Explaining Ukraine

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The Real Difference Between the Idea of the Nation State and the Empire

Nations are also constructed through conquest. empires is a polity which has a center but doesn't have borders and quite often they have real global agenda. With Russia we see that this imperial idea is actually at the origins of the Russian statehood because if we move back to the 15th century the influence of Mongol Empire were going down.

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