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Colonized Colonizers: Latvia's Past and Present in the Context of Colonialism and Imperialism

Abstract:
Colonial discourse usually is about relationships between Orient and Occident, (global) north and (global) south or between the west and the rest. However, there are some scholars who
suggest that this is not enough. In search of a truly global understanding of postcolonialism, they argue, more cases have to be taken into consideration. Most prominently the cases of post-Soviet
countries. This paper deals with one of these countries, Latvia, and finds that not only did the Soviet occupation of more than 50 years constitute imperialist colonialism, but also that postcolonial theory is a useful tool in explaining Latvia's way since the end of the occupation in 1990.