@misc{F{\"u}rst2024,
  author    = {F{\"u}rst, Juliane},
  title     = {The Imperial Imagination of Russians … and its limits},
  publisher = {ZZF - Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Zeithistorische Forschung: zdbooks},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  doi       = {10.14765/zzf.dok-2754},
  pages     = {26 -- 32},
  year      = {2024},
  abstract  = {Among Soviet historians it has become a kind of truism that the Soviet Union was in a permanent state of contradictions and that Soviet society adopted to these contradictions with a variety of survival mechanisms that ranged from ignoring contradictions to circumventing their challenges. One of the most significant contradictions was the tension between the Soviet Union's self-declared anti-imperialism and anti-colonialism and the fact that it asserted its own imperial and colonial structures, especially in the post-WW II period. Many more qualified people have written on this and debated which of the two elements should be considered primary or how one should characterize the resulting entity. I shall try to address a different question here: What does and did empire mean to Russians, especially vis-{\`a}-vis Ukraine?},
  language  = {en}
}