On 12/16/15 11:29 PM, Joseph Green wrote: > If Soviet actions towards Ukraine and Georgia resembled Tsarist action, > that > shows the imperialist nature of those actions. It wouldn't show that Soviet > imperialism was only political, but instead reinforces the analysis that > Soviet Union did become imperialist when the epoch-making Russian revolution > died away.
The problem is that the USSR never sought to colonize any territory after 1917 either directly as was the case with Japan, which imposed its direct rule over Burma in 1941, for example. It simply continued to maintain the status quo of Czarism under a socialist facade. If Czarism had continued, you might have expected Russia to operate more like Japan and to see inter-imperialist rivalries of the sort that led to the Russo-Japanese war of 1904. After WWII, the USSR got a bunch of buffer states in return for its role in defeating Nazism. Were there any signs that it had ambitions to expand into Eastern Europe in the 1930s? Or anywhere else for that matter? Did Russian corporations seek to operate in Latin America, Africa or Asia? Oh, I forgot. There were no Russian corporations. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
