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April 2018

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“A Scale Model of the Contemporary World:” Nationality, Demography, and Development in the Soviet Union

  • April 27, 2018
When, in 1959, the USSR conducted its first census in 20 years, it revealed something remarkable about the geographic distribution of the Soviet Union’s population. Author Artemy M. Kalinovsky Artemy…
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  • 11 min
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Building Secure Communities in a Post-Liberal Age: A View from Kyrgyzstan

  • April 25, 2018
How to build sustainable peace, forge livelihoods, and create a basis for development? These questions have been of central interest to scholars in the fields of development, peace and conflict…
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  • 13 min
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Hamid Ismailov On “The Devils’ Dance” and Other Works

  • April 18, 2018
“A beguiling tale of khans, commissars, spies and poet-queens…[who] feature in a rare English translation of modern Uzbek fiction.” This is how The Economist described The Devils’ Dance, the most…
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  • 9 min
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How Kazakhstan Is Trying to Reform Itself to Become a Regional Economic Hub

  • April 16, 2018
Among post-Soviet states, Kazakhstan was on the leading edge of reforms in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Thereafter, the reform process stalled, but with new top-down initiatives announced in…
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  • 12 min
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“Have the Mountains Fallen?” The Story of Two Journeys of Loss and Redemption in the Cold War

  • April 4, 2018
In the early 1990s, while working as a journalist in Moscow, Jeff Lilley witnessed the dissolution of the Soviet Union. In 2004, he moved to Kyrgyz Republic. After spending around…
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