… The Imperial Plow: Settler Colonialism in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union Conference … The Imperial Plow: … “Reading across the Bering Strait: Decolonizing Land, Love, and Kinship” Eeva Kuikka (Tampere Univ.), “The Imperial … He sees settlers as conniving shysters, nomads as ignorant children (or worse), the southern steppe as promising but …