"Žanrovye imperializmy. Spor o prinadležnosti dum" [Genre-Imperialismen. Diskussionen über die Zugehörigkeit der Dumy]

Kirshbaum's article problematizes the (anti)imperial connotations of the Polish-Russian polemics over the origin and appurtenance of thoughts. The debates surrounding Ryleev's "Thoughts" (Dumy), inspired by the "Historical Songs" of the Polish poet and public figure Ju. Niemcewicz, became a space for the revision and recoding of Polish influences. Meanwhile, the reform-minded liberalism of the (pre)Decembrist generation merges with great-power rhetoric and is seamlessly written into an apology for the expansion and appropriation of (poetic) colonies.