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2 - Looking Eastwards

The Bolshevik Theory of Imperialism and International Law

from Part I - Imperialism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 January 2021

By
Robert Knox  and
Ntina Tzouvala
Edited by
Kathryn Greenman ,
Anne Orford ,
Anna Saunders  and
Ntina Tzouvala
Kathryn Greenman
Affiliation:
University of Technology, Sydney
Anne Orford
Affiliation:
University of Melbourne
Anna Saunders
Affiliation:
Harvard Law School, Massachusetts
Ntina Tzouvala
Affiliation:
Australian National University, Canberra
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Summary

Turning to Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points as the starting point for self-determination in international law has become part of the received wisdom of the field. In a 2017 article, Lauri Mälksoo examined the relationship between the liberal-Wilsonian and the socialist-Bolshevik conceptualisations of self-determination, rejecting the idea that the Bolsheviks contributed at all to the international right of self-determination. In his account, the right is an intrinsically liberal one, concerned with the ‘extension of human freedom from individuals to peoples’.

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MarxismThird Worldismanti-imperialismGenocide Conventionracismpetition
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Revolutions in International Law
The Legacies of 1917
 , pp. 27 - 55
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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