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Repressions in the USSR

WHY THE USSR COLLAPSED

And How It Happened So Rapidly

~ 7 min read
Kazakhstan

WHY THE SHEJIRE IS MORE THAN JUST GENEALOGY FOR KAZAKHS

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

~ 9 min read
Repressions in the USSR

THE NATIONAL QUESTION AND THE ‘FRIENDSHIP OF THE PEOPLES’

Why Ethnicity Mattered So Greatly in the USSR

~ 6 min read

CENTRAL ASIA: FROM EMPIRE TO SOVIET RULE

Historian Adeeb Khalid on Colonialism, Nation-Building, and the Enduring Myths That Shape Our Understanding of the Region

~ 11 min read
Kazakhstan

THE SECRETS OF CHILD-REARING AMONG THE KAZAKHS

Ethnographer Lepuda Mukataeva on the philosophy of childhood in the steppe

~ 1 min read
Central Asia

THE ULUS OF JOCHI: THE LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF THE FIRST STEPPE EMPIRE

The Golden Horde: The Ulus of Jochi and Its Significance for Kazakhstan

~ 10 min read
Central Asia

CENTRAL ASIA: FROM EMPIRE TO SOVIET RULE

Historian Adeeb Khalid on Colonialism, Nation-Building, and the Enduring Myths That Shape Our Understanding of the Region

~ 11 min read
Repressions in the USSR

ALZHIR

The Horrors of Stalin’s Women’s Camps

~ 12 min read
East

Asia Rising

Professor Kishore Mahbubani on Why the Past 200 years Are a Historical Aberration

~ 5 min read
Central Asia

THE HORDE RECONSIDERED

An Interview with Historian Marie Favereau

~ 11 min read
Hieronymus Bosch. The Temptation of St. Anthony. 1500-1510 / Wikimedia Commons

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Guess what this thing was used for.

Central Asia

The Great Turan and Islam

How the Turkic Peoples Embraced Islam

~ 4 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
Kazakhstan

‘KAZAKHSTAN IS STILL PAYING THE PRICE FOR NUCLEAR TESTS’

An Interview with Togzhan Kassenova

~ 6 min read
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