Ten Theses on Russophobia 1. Russophobia is when Russia or its people are positioned as civilizational threats.
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Since there's an argument about russophobia on my twitter feed, I thought I'd offer my thoughts. Here are my "Ten Theses on Russophobia." They are not exhaustive. Just some ideas I've come up with when thinking about the concept.
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2. Russophobia is not racism. Russians are not a race. But Russophobia does deploy racist language and concepts.
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3. Russophobia is a modern phenomenon. It first emerged in France under Napoleon with the propagation of the fraudulent “Testament of Peter the Great.”
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4. Russophobia has mostly been a British phenomenon, particularly in the mid-19th century. It did not emerge in the United States until the 1880s.
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5. Russophobia is not about Russia, but the use of Russia as Other to constitute a unified self/subject or undifferentiated civilizational space.
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6. Russophobia is a form of psychological displacement where Russia embodies the anxieties and fears of the subject.
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7. Russophobia is a political weapon instrumentalized by the Russian government to discredit legitimate criticism.
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8. Russophobia is a historical fact, a discursive formation that ebbs and flows with geopolitics.
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9. Russophobia is not an ideology that comes from below but formed and deployed by elites. Its mass appeal, when it exists, is manufactured.
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10. Russophobia is an expression of Russia’s imagined liminality between civilization and barbarism. Russia is almost, but not quite.
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