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Episode 14: Is Russia European at all?

On Geopolitics

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The Importance of Orientalism in the History of Russia

Buriat: One of the things I find quite interesting about Russia in that sense is they were newcomers. And there's new kids on the block. They were obviously more zealous than everyone else and they had this mission to go and sort of sell this. It's not a liberation at all in that standard view, he says. Buriat: With the cats of the Soviet Union, you realize that actually these identities have re-emerged.

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