The USSR and Colonialism

By Gareth Dale Gareth Dale (pronouns he/him) is a Reader in Political Economy at Brunel University. The Soviet Union’s relationship to colonialism and imperialism was complex. Initially, its anti-imperialism was uncompromising, flowing from the revolutionary upsurge of 1917. Over subsequent decades, this turned to ambivalence or worse. In 1917, the insurrectionary forces pursued anti-colonialism at […]