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Of course, Suslov is just one man, and he was never a political dissident. But his presence at #HSE is emblematic of the uncomfortable affinity between Russian #liberalism and #Kremlin #imperialism, underscoring the former’s limits as a politically transformative force. Just as HSE’s decline is the result of the structures and principles on which it was founded, so too are the limitations of Russian liberalism—now brought into painfully sharp relief by #Russia’s invasion of #Ukraine—a result of assumptions that have been inherent to this intellectual and political trend for the past 200 years. As authors like Susanna Rabow-Edling have argued, liberalism in the Russian #Empire was deeply intertwined with #nationalism and the imperial project, with proponents of the movement believing that liberalizing the empire was the only way to preserve its existence. In this sense, it was not dissimilar to liberalism in other colonial metropoles that posited Western #Europe as the epitome of #modernity and its imperial possessions as passive recipients of its supposedly progressive #policy.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/08/29/russian-liberal-universities-hse-ukraine-war/ #war #education #usa #biden #opposition

Why Russian Liberalism Has to Change

Imperialist sentiments are powerful even among the educated elite.

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