Tomasz Kamusella

Tomasz Kamusella

is Reader (Professor Extraordinarius) in Modern Central and Eastern European History at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. His recent monographs include Politics and the Slavic Languages (Routledge 2021) and Eurasian Empires as Blueprints for Ethiopia (Routledge 2021). His reference Words in Space and Time: A Historical Atlas of Language Politics in Modern Central Europe (CEU Press 2021) is available as an open access publication.

Ruzzian Studies 3.0

After Russia’s full-scale imperialist onslaught on Ukraine in 2022, practitioners of Russian-cum-Eastern European studies in the west vowed to decolonize and de-center their field. Half a decade later, their rhetoric did change but not the long-established unabating focus on Russia, which perpetuates for free the Kremlin’s insidious influence on the
14.06.2026

Russian: A Murderers’ Language

Employing a language as the medium for spreading genocidal propaganda, making a language into a weapon of war and a ‘justification’ of genocide do not leave this language unscathed. It is rapidly transformed into a murderers’ language. The German and Austrian Holocaust of the Jews and the Roma made German
29.01.2026

Empire or Democracy

Democracy and imperialism are mutually exclusive. No empire was, is or can be democratic. The British Empire wasn’t, the imperial People’s Republic of China isn’t, nor will imperial Russia become a democracy, even when a self-professed democrat is installed at its helm.
10.09.2024

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