This essay provides a critical decolonial intervention into the prevalent state of racial exceptionalism in mainstream sociological research on contemporary Russia. Following critical race theory's understanding of race as relationally constituted and rooted in discourses of Europeanness, modernity, and civilization, the essay shows that race is highly prevalent but unacknowledged in sociological studies of Russia. It is argued that dismissing race as analytically irrelevant in Russia seriously limits the sociological ability to explain social inequalities, engage with current global challenges and inadvertently gives racism new legitimacy. Drawing on postcolonial and decolonial critiques of sociology as a form of knowledge production, the essay points towards some ways of decolonizing sociological research concerning the inequalities associated with race and ethnicity in Russia and overcoming racial exceptionalism.

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当代俄罗斯社会学研究中种族的不可见性：非殖民主义干预

本文对当代俄罗斯主流社会学研究中普遍存在的种族例外主义状态提供了批判性的去殖民干预。遵循批判种族理论将种族理解为与欧洲性、现代性和文明的话语有关并植根于种族，本文表明种族在俄罗斯的社会学研究中非常普遍但未被承认。有人认为，在俄罗斯将种族视为在分析上无关紧要，严重限制了社会学解释社会不平等、应对当前全球挑战的能力，并无意中赋予种族主义新的合法性。借鉴社会学作为知识生产形式的后殖民和非殖民批判，