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The portrayal of the (Russian) German colonists as settlement pioneers 1880–1945

2025/12/04 by Tim Buchen, Gwen Clayton
#Colonialism research #Colonization (settlement policy) #Foreignness #German-Russian #Global history #History of eastern europe #Landesausbau (Middle Ages) #Ober Ost #Othering (social psychology) #Racism #Research on historical stereotypes #Volhynia

paper · doi:10.25355/tqrp-8102

Abstract

This article shows how German colonists from the Tsarist Empire were, by means of a colonialist discourse, made into instruments of the Germanization of Eastern Europe. Their supposed lack of sophistication was practically prerequisite for coping with the ostensibly primitive inhabitants and the untamed wilderness.

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