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Repressions in the USSR

The Kengir Uprising

A Prison Revolt Crushed by Tanks

~ 5 min read
Kazakhstan

The Voice in the Wool

Felt as a Sacred Medium of the Steppes

~ 14 min read
Kazakhstan

The Story of Japanese Prisoners of War in Kazakhstan

How Kwantung Army soldiers ended up in Kazakh camps, built homes and mines, and why one of them stayed forever

~ 13 min read

ABYLKHAN KASTEEV’S NAÏVE SOCIAL REALISM

Between the beauty of life and the power of ideology

~ 11 min read
Kazakhstan

Kazakhs and ‘Turkestanis’ in German Captivity

How Soviet Prisoners of War Found Themselves Outside the Law and Excluded from Memory

~ 15 min read
Kazakhstan

The Evolution of the ‘Toi’

How the Kazakh Wedding Survived Revolution, Bans, and a Changing World

~ 19 min read
Central Asia

Lost Greeks, Hidden Kingdoms, and Forgotten Worlds

How a Seventeenth-Century Utopia Sparked a Literary Obsession with Central Asia

~ 17 min read
Central Asia

From Samarkand to the Stars

Ulugh Beg and the Rise of Planetary Science in Central Asia

~ 11 min read
Central Asia

Sogdians on the Silk Road

Merchants, Missionaries, and the Spread of Religions across Eurasia

~ 12 min read
Middle East

What to Do in Medieval Baghdad

A Time Traveler’s Guide

~ 18 min read
Hieronymus Bosch. The Temptation of St. Anthony. 1500-1510 / Wikimedia Commons

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Mongols

The Byzantine Wives of Mongol Khans

The Story of How Women Saved an Empire

~ 14 min read
Eurasia

THE GREAT GAME IN SIBERIA

How the Russian Ambassador Met Chinggisid Envoys in the Seventeenth Century

~ 13 min read
Kazakhstan

SLAVE OR ROYAL AMBASSADOR?

The Story of Aru Sultan, Who Revolutionized Fashion in London

~ 17 min read
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