Was Soviet Internationalism Anti-Racist?

Walke, Anika

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“…The policy was framed in term of class enemies, but it can be seen as racist, given that entire ethnic groups were deported en masse (Weitz 2002). There was a small number of students from African and Asian countries in the Soviet Union, and although there were some clashes, most of the students encountered little racial hostility (Walke 2019).…”

Section: Soviet Exceptionalismmentioning

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Racism and Nationalism

Rutland

2021

Nationalities Papers

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This article reviews the current scholarship around racism and nationalism, two of the mostly hotly debated issues in contemporary politics. Both racism and nationalism involve dividing humanity into groups and setting up some groups as innately superior to others. Until recently, racism and nationalism were both widely seen as unpleasant relics of times past, destined to disappear as the principles of equality and human rights become universally embraced. But both concepts have proved their resilience in recent years. Scholars have been devoting new attention to the “racialization” of ethnic and national identities in the former Soviet Union and East Europe, the regions that are the main focus of this journal. The article examines the prevailing approaches to understanding the terms “racism” and “nationalism,” which are distinct but overlapping categories of analysis and vehicles of political mobilization. Developments in genomics have complicated the relationship between perceptions of race as a purely social phenomenon. The essay explores the way racism and nationalism play out in two self-proclaimed “exceptional” political systems – the Soviet Union and the United States – which have played a prominent role in global debates about race and nation. It briefly discusses developments in other regions, such as the debate over multiculturalism in Europe.

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Section: Soviet Exceptionalismmentioning

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Racism and Nationalism

Rutland

2021

Nationalities Papers

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A Cold War Cold Case: What Huldah Clark Can Teach Us about Teaching Soviet History

O’Keeffe¹

2021

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This short article reconstructs the forgotten story of Huldah Clark, a Black American teenager who studied in Moscow in the years 1961–1964 on a scholarship offered her by Nikita Khrushchev. It deploys her story to explore the complexities of Cold War racial politics and how ordinary people mobilized the superpowers’ competing slogans in creative ways. It shows how ordinary Black Americans found hope and even tangible support in Khrushchev's Soviet Union as they struggled for civil rights at home and sought avenues for asserting Black power and anti-racist protest on the global stage. Whereas the historiography on Black American sojourners to the USSR has focused on the interwar period, this article shows how the avowed Soviet commitment to racial equality and global anti-racism still had the power to inspire ordinary Black Americans in their struggle against Jim Crow and in their global pursuit of Black liberation.

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Was Soviet Internationalism Anti-Racist?

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