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Kazakhstan

DO YOU KNOW WHERE MY CHILDREN ARE?

The Famine in Kazakhstan and the Search for Missing Relatives

~ 7 min read
East

THE BATTLE OF THE PROPHECIES AND THE SECRET ALPHABET OF POWER

How the Ottoman sultans won the war of ideas in the Islamic world of the fifteenth to sixteenth centuries

~ 14 min read
People

THE FATHER OF NATIONAL ART

Akhmet Jubanov and the Rise of Kazakh Professional Music

~ 18 min read

Miscellaneous

Curious facts about beauty, culture and worldview of people

Photo archive

Myth

Historic Press Picks

Petroglyph

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Central Asia

THE MAKING OF CENTRAL ASIA’S MODERN BORDERS

The Turbulent Story of the National-Territorial Delimitation of 1924

~ 16 min read
Kazakhstan

HORSES, TEA, AND THE WORD OF THE NOMAD

How the Kazakh Khanate’s Economy Worked—and Why It Was Far More Complex Than It Seems

~ 11 min read

QOZY KÖRPESH–BAYAN SULU

A Love Story Spanning Fifteen Centuries

~ 12 min read

PERSPECTIVES

History of science

DECOLONIZING SCIENCE AND RETHINKING THE GLOBAL HISTORY OF KNOWLEDGE

A Conversation with James Poskett

~ 14 min read
West

Changing the Game

From the West to the Rest: A Professor from the London School of Economics on the New Global Order

~ 13 min read
Central Asia

THE HORDE RECONSIDERED

An Interview with Historian Marie Favereau

~ 11 min read

LECTURES

Kazakhstan

KAZAKHSTAN AND XINJIANG

Lecture 5. Kazakhs Between Two Empires

~ 14 min read
East

THE HISTORY OF KAZAKH–CHINESE RELATIONS

Lecture One. Ancient China and the Steppe Empires

~ 20 min read
Kazakhstan

THE KAZAKH STEPPE: ON THE EVE OF UPHEAVAL

Lecture 1.

~ 20 min read

Special projects

How Humanity Learned to Fly

The Long Journey from Myth to Reality

~ 1 min read

JELTOQSAN

The Chronology of December 1986

~ 1 min read

THE GREAT NEEDLEWORK RACE

The History of Olympic Fashion

~ 11 min read
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