Das imperiale Russland und seine Huldigung durch linke Dogmatiker:innen - Anastasia Tikhomirova

In the organizer's words:

Imperial Russia and its homage by left-wing dogmatists - Anastasia Tikhomirova

29.10. - 19h at SÖZ Dortmund

An event organized by the Initiative for Social Critique as part of the photo exhibition "Youth of Ukraine" by Fabian Ritter.

On February 24, 2022, the Russian army invaded Ukraine. The war, which has been unending in eastern Ukraine since 2014, has thus escalated into a relentless war of aggression against the whole of Ukraine and its citizens. Russia already has some experience in wars of aggression: the Chechen wars in 1994 and 1999, the Georgian war in 2008 and the military operation in Syria in 2015 served as a blueprint for the invasion of Ukraine. Yet even today, many Western left-wing political actors are still failing to grasp the motives behind this war and understand it for what it is: a particularly aggressive form of Russian imperialism and neo-colonialism. Instead, they discuss Putin's mental health, Nazis in Ukraine or the eastward expansion of NATO, which the supposedly anti-imperialist Western interpretation of this war seeks to blame. For a consistently anti-imperialist stance, however, it would be essential to examine Russian history and the colonial continuities within it before, during and after the existence of the Soviet Union in order to be able to answer the question of the ideological background to the war of aggression.

Anastasia Tikhomirova is a freelance journalist, cultural scientist and moderator. She is an alumna of the Marion-Gräfin-Dönhoff Scholarship of the International Journalism Programs 2021, which she completed at Novaya Gazeta in Moscow. She is also doing her Master's degree in Eastern European Studies and Interdisciplinary Research on Anti-Semitism in Berlin.

Supported by the Coordination Office for Diversity, Tolerance and Democracy of the City of Dortmund and Stadtbezirksmarketing Nordstadt.