“…Moore's (2001) article calling for such a dialogue was a relatively lonely voice, but it took just a few years for this point to be accepted as commonsensical (see Hagen 2004, Buchowski 2006, Spivak et al 2006, Chari and Verdery 2009). Today, one can list studies applying the postcolonial perspective to the former Soviet periphery, from the Baltic states (Kelertas 2006, Annus 2012, Platt 2012b and Ukraine (Pavlyshyn 1992, Shkandrij 2001, Velychenko 2002, Chernetsky 2003, Ryabchuk 2011 to Central Asia (Gorshenina 2007, Tlostanova 2010, Abashin 2011, Mignolo and Tlostanova 2012, as well as to the countries of the former socialist bloc (Kovačevič 2008, Kołodziejczyk andŞandru 2012. This literature builds on the long-term tradition of the critique of Orientalism in the Western imagery of 'Eastern Europe', dating back to Larry Wolf's (1994) groundbreaking book.…”