Table of Contents

Introduction: Colonialism in camouflage 1. Methodological theses about the Soviet empire 2. The location of knowledge: Soviet area studies facing the postcolonial question 3. Can a modern nation-state be colonized? Reformulating the framework of postcolonial studies 4. Modernity with a smiley face: Soviet modernity, Soviet coloniality 5. Colonial layers and hybridization of the past: layers of national modernity in the Baltics 6. From colonial fear to decolonizing laughter: deconstructing the colonial binarisms of ‘us’ and ‘them’, ‘the colonizer’ and ‘the colonized’ 7. Cultural imaginaries and everyday materialities: living in a Soviet home Conclusion: Everyday dissensus and the end of empire

About the Author

Epp Annus is a senior researcher with the Estonian Literature Museum. She also lectures at Ohio State University.