Finland and Poland in 1939? Baltic states after WWII, which involved large-scale Russian civilian migrations?
David Shemano -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Louis Proyect Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2015 5:23 AM To: [email protected]; Progressive Economics Subject: Re: [Pen-l] Radical takes on World War Two | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant 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 ____________________________________________________ Information contained in this e-mail transmission may be privileged, confidential and covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. Sections 2510-2521. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, distribute, or reproduce this transmission. If you have received this e-mail transmission in error, please notify us immediately of the error by return email and please delete the message from your system. Pursuant to requirements related to practice before the U. S. Internal Revenue Service, any tax advice contained in this communication (including any attachments) is not intended to be used, and cannot be used, for purposes of (i) avoiding penalties imposed under the U. S. Internal Revenue Code or (ii) promoting, marketing or recommending to another person any tax-related matter. Thank you in advance for your cooperation. Robins Kaplan LLP http://www.robinskaplan.com ____________________________________________________
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