A corrosive cynicism about our own history and political values suits the Russian state’s purposes very well.Īs I was walking to a rally in support of Ukraine held outside the Radcliffe Camera in Oxford on 27 February, three days after the Russian invasion began, I overheard a student say, “well, we invaded Iraq, so we’re not in a position to criticise”.
As Peter Pomerantsev has documented, the purpose of Russian propaganda is both to spread falsehoods and to sow a pervasive, postmodern doubt as to the very possibility of truth or objectivity. Do not upload a file using Pages or any other file extension as Blackboard will not recognize them.A favoured Kremlin disinformation tactic is not simply to deny clear evidence of Russian or Soviet crimes, but to distract attention from them by claiming that the democratic world is no better. The file you upload should be a Microsoft Word.You will submit your final response on Blackboard (section going up soon) by 11:59pm March 8th.A bibliography page does not count toward the word minimum for the response. If you cite another paper or book in your response you must provide proper in-text citations as well as the full reference information in a separate bibliography page.If you’ve kept up with the readings, the notes, and have been to class this is a straightforward assignment. Use your daily reading notes, but don’t just copy/paste.
Your response should form an integrated, coherent narrative. Describe in detail how reading Late Victorian Holocausts has changed or otherwise influenced the way you perceive a specific cultural process, political agenda, or ecological shift in the contemporary local, national, or global world.ģ. Using at least three specific examples from the book, citing the location of your examples, illustrate how the intersection of environmental catastrophe, colonial policies, and a global economy dramatically changed cultures and began a legacy of marginalization in one or more of the regions we’ve studied (Africa, China, India, South America, etc.).Ģ. In a short essay of 1,200 words you should address the following:ġ. The first midterm exam is a final written response to Mark Davis’s Late Victorian Holocausts. Response Paper to the book "Late Victorian Holocaust" By Mike Davis
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