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Imposition of a Backwardness Narrative

in the campaign “Imposition of an Image of Backwardness and the “Civilizing” Mission (1721–1800s)”

The government of the Russian Empire justified expansion with ideas of enlightening undeveloped societies: historian Michael Khodarkovsky states the ambition of the metropole's officials "to bring both Christianity and civilization to the 'wild and uncivilized' peoples along its borders"[1].

ID: C1108.T0001
Technique:  Imposition of a Backwardness Narrative
Campaign:  Imposition of an Image of Backwardness and the “Civilizing” Mission (1721–1800s)
Start: January 1721
End: December 1799
Contributors: decolonial.ist project

References

  1. Khodarkovsky M. Russia's Steppe Frontier: The Making of a Colonial Empire 1500-1800. 2002. – Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-253-21770-7.