РАЗГОВОР О НЕКЛАССИЧЕСКОМ КОЛОНИАЛИЗМЕ – I ИНТЕРВЬЮ С АЛЕКСАНДРОМ ЭТКИНДОМ

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SUMMARY: The interview begins with Alexander Etkind’s explication of the genealogy of his research on Russian “internal colonization” and proceeds with a discussion of the different aspects and limitations of applying the “second world” concept to historical reality; its connection to “nonclassical” colonialisms including the “internal one” and to the Russian intellectual tradition of making sense of its own past. Ektind stresses the importance of Hanna Arendt’s concept of the “boomerang effect” for his understanding of internal colonialism, and the time frame of the Cold War for applying the “second world” concept, which has no meaning beyond this period. His evocation of the “internal colonization” concept has to serve the task of inscribing Russian history into the broader trends of world history, not to present it as something special. He further explains that the idea of ethnicity is needed to enable differentiation between external and internal colonizations and that many process

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