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Qalam

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Repressions in the USSR

WHY THE USSR COLLAPSED

And How It Happened So Rapidly

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Kazakhstan

WHY THE SHEJIRE IS MORE THAN JUST GENEALOGY FOR KAZAKHS

Historian Maksat Alpysbes on the centuries-old tradition of the genealogical tree

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Repressions in the USSR

THE NATIONAL QUESTION AND THE ‘FRIENDSHIP OF THE PEOPLES’

Why Ethnicity Mattered So Greatly in the USSR

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Central Asia

JOURNEYS FROM THE CENTER OF THE EARTH

How Central Asia Became the Crossroads of the World

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Kazakhstan

THE SECRETS OF CHILD-REARING AMONG THE KAZAKHS

Ethnographer Lepuda Mukataeva on the philosophy of childhood in the steppe

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