April 2018

History

“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

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

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

Economy

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

Books

“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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5 min

Photo

Scenes from Central Asian Migration to Russia

April 2, 2018

Between September and December 2016, photographer and reporter Iris Oppelaar followed Central Asian labor migrants from their hometowns in remote areas of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan through their journeys to Russia.…

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

Building Secure Communities in a Post-Liberal Age: A View from Kyrgyzstan

Hamid Ismailov On “The Devils’ Dance” and Other Works

How Kazakhstan Is Trying to Reform Itself to Become a Regional Economic Hub

“Have the Mountains Fallen?” The Story of Two Journeys of Loss and Redemption in the Cold War

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