I’m not sure if Russia could be considered a settler state. It doesn’t predicate itself on the exploitation of an internal nation. There are indigenous groups, but I’m unsure how they are treated. If they are given equality to slavs then its just a multi ethnic country. If they are mistreated by the government and actively given worse economic conditions then you could argue that those indigenous areas are colonies but at least European Russia is natively Slavic so it still doesn’t qualify for settler status.
Basically everything in the Americas is settler colonial though.
Russia is sadly a colonial state too, historically at least. The Russian empire sent Cossacks out into the steppes to harass and exploit indigenous people for fur and other valuables, and like any other European empire they sought to build a colonial empire in the east.
Under the Soviet Union of course things got much better, and legally these minority groups and indigenous people were treated as equals and given representation.
As for the modern Russian Federation I can’t say how the situation is for certain, but regardless it would pale in comparison to what has been done and is still being done in the Americas.
If modern Russia is no longer doing these things then it’d be unfair to still consider it settler colonial as the settler colonial model is built on exploitation of a specific nation, if that nation is no longer exploited to a greater degree than the colonizer proletariat/labor aristocracy then its no longer a colonizer settler dynamic as the basis the the settler system no longer exists.
settler colonial model is built on exploitation of a specific nation, if that nation is no longer exploited to a greater degree than the colonizer proletariat/labor aristocracy
Well if you count the semi- and illegal immigrants from the former Soviet republics in Asia (i.e. Tajikistan), maybe? But otherwise, we’re all getting exploited on class basis these days.
If they are mistreated by the government and actively given worse economic conditions
That was the case during Imperial times.
European Russia is natively Slavic
I live west of Urals and the land my city is on belonged to other ethnic groups. Although AFAIK they got assimilated, rather than exterminated (as was the case in Americas).
I mean, Mexico is also a settler colonial state. Just look how its treated its indigenous people.
A lot of countries are settler states, no? Arguably everything in the Americas, Russia, etc.
I’m not sure if Russia could be considered a settler state. It doesn’t predicate itself on the exploitation of an internal nation. There are indigenous groups, but I’m unsure how they are treated. If they are given equality to slavs then its just a multi ethnic country. If they are mistreated by the government and actively given worse economic conditions then you could argue that those indigenous areas are colonies but at least European Russia is natively Slavic so it still doesn’t qualify for settler status.
Basically everything in the Americas is settler colonial though.
Russia is sadly a colonial state too, historically at least. The Russian empire sent Cossacks out into the steppes to harass and exploit indigenous people for fur and other valuables, and like any other European empire they sought to build a colonial empire in the east.
Under the Soviet Union of course things got much better, and legally these minority groups and indigenous people were treated as equals and given representation.
As for the modern Russian Federation I can’t say how the situation is for certain, but regardless it would pale in comparison to what has been done and is still being done in the Americas.
If modern Russia is no longer doing these things then it’d be unfair to still consider it settler colonial as the settler colonial model is built on exploitation of a specific nation, if that nation is no longer exploited to a greater degree than the colonizer proletariat/labor aristocracy then its no longer a colonizer settler dynamic as the basis the the settler system no longer exists.
Well if you count the semi- and illegal immigrants from the former Soviet republics in Asia (i.e. Tajikistan), maybe? But otherwise, we’re all getting exploited on class basis these days.
That was the case during Imperial times.
I live west of Urals and the land my city is on belonged to other ethnic groups. Although AFAIK they got assimilated, rather than exterminated (as was the case in Americas).
I mean, if it was the case during imperial times but not today then they are no longer settler colonial, they just used to be.