Russian imperialism

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Russian imperialism broadly refers to the political, economic, cultural, or military power exerted by various Russian states over foreign countries and territories. This includes the actions of the contemporary Russian Federation in addition to the relatively recent historical examples of the Tsardom of Russia and the Russian Empire, as well as the Soviet Union, whose affairs were dominated by the Russian SFSR. Some scholars of postcolonialism have highlighted the lack of global attention given to Russian and Soviet imperialism in the discipline. After the fall of Constantinople in 1453, the Grand Principality of Moscow declared itself to be the third Rome—primarily on the grounds that it was the legitimate successor to the Byzantine Empire as the world's new centre of Orthodox Christianity. Beginning in the 1550s, Russia conquered, on average, territory equivalent in size to the present-day Netherlands every year for the next 150 years across parts of Eastern Europe, North Asia (Siberia...

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