Open AccessTo What Extent Were Progressive Politics Before World War Two a Fundamentally Imperial Project? The Case of International Humanitarian Relief in Russia, 1921-1923
Author(s) -
Maurice Suckling
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of advances in humanities
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2349-4379
DOI - 10.24297/jah.v7i0.8105
Subject(s) - politics , power (physics) , famine , covert , political science , humanitarian aid , political economy , adversary , sociology , economic history , history , law , philosophy , linguistics , physics , quantum mechanics , statistics , mathematics
There is perhaps a pervasive view that empires are at odds with progressive politics, which are, in their own turn, without covert agendas. The case study of the devastating Russian famine of 1921-23 is an opportunity to examine these views in more detail, and to consider the ways in which imperial agendas, and notions of the projection of soft power, were intertwined with the humanitarian agendas of NGOs.