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An Alternative Internationalism: The Main Lines and Legacies of Polish Sovietology, Promethean Orientalism and the Soviet ‘Southern Borderlands’, 1926–1939

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  • Marcel Radosław Garboś

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‘Prometheism’ was an interwar movement of borderland nationalists from the former Russian Empire who envisioned the division of the Soviet Union into independent nation-states. This article argues that ideological affinities and diasporic connections made the Promethean cause an attractive ‘alternative internationalism’ to the Soviet system for exiled thinkers hailing from the so-called ‘southern borderlands’ of Crimea, the Caucasus, the Volga region and Central Asia. In the 1930s, Prometheism drew intellectuals from these regions to Poland, where the movement’s thinkers formulated ambitious visions of Eurasian liberation from Soviet power.

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  • Marcel Radosław Garboś, 2019. "An Alternative Internationalism: The Main Lines and Legacies of Polish Sovietology, Promethean Orientalism and the Soviet ‘Southern Borderlands’, 1926–1939," Europe-Asia Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 71(9), pages 1584-1608, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ceasxx:v:71:y:2019:i:9:p:1584-1608
    DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2019.1652726
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