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A Woman, an Actress, a Jadid? Reflecting on a Recent Exhibition in London

  • December 16, 2022
Last month, an exciting photographic exhibition on Central Asia, entitled “Bound for Life and Education”: Sara Eshonturaeva and the Jadid Movement in Soviet Uzbekistan, was shown at Asia House in…
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  • 15 min
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The Mongols and the Modern International Order: An Interview with Ayşe Zarakol

  • December 5, 2022
Ayşe Zarakol’s book Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders challenges our understanding of the history of international relations and makes sense of the apparently chaotic…
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  • 17 min
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Between the Aral and Caspian Seas: The Magnificent History and Archeology of Turkmenistan

  • November 8, 2022
Two seas—the Aral Sea, now almost non-existent, and the Caspian Sea—encircle the great Turan plain, where constant migrations and ethnogenetic contacts between nomadic and sedentary peoples have taken place over…
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  • 32 min
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Early Soviet Modernization in the Lives of Kazakh Women

  • October 19, 2022
In her book entitled Modernization of the Early Soviet Era in the Fate of Women of Kazakhstan, 1920–1930: Monograph (Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, 2017), Janat Kundakbayeva, Doctor of Historical Sciences…
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What Can Golden Horde Fabrics Tell Us About Histories of Kazakhstan and Ukraine?

  • September 23, 2022
Tatiana Krupa, a Ukrainian archaeologist, historian, and restorer, has extensive experience studying fragments of fabrics that date back to the Golden Horde era. She has done work on fabrics that…
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  • Central Asia in Modern Times: Architecture, Women, and Freedom. An Interview with Edda Schlager
    • 04.11.22
    • 13 min
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The Lives and Work of Soviet Kazakh Women in Photos. From the Central State Archive of Film, Photo Documents, and Sound Recording of the Ministry of Culture and Sports of the Republic of Kazakhstan

  • August 9, 2022
The lives of women in Central Asia before Russian colonization are often portrayed in a miserable light. European travelers did not leave much visual evidence about local women. Women in…
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  • 9 min
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Archival Treasures of Kazakhstan Offer New Images and Voices of Its History

  • August 8, 2022
The Central State Archive of Film, Photo Documents, and Sound Recording of the Republic of Kazakhstan– http://kfdz.kz/was set up almost 80 years ago but has recently expanded to include new collections…
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  • 12 min
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Studying the Steppe on Imperial Orders: Fyodor Shcherbina and His Expedition

  • June 27, 2022
A revolutionary spirit, an opponent of imperial and Soviet power, and a supporter of the idea of an independent Ukraine, Fyodor Shcherbina was one of the first scientists sent by…
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  • 11 min
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The Turkic Roots of Monomakh’s Cap: An Interview with Guzel Valeeva-Suleymanova

  • March 7, 2022
Monomakh’s Cap used to crown the Russian tsars. Created in the early fourteenth century, the cap is topped by a simple gold cross, inlaid with precious stones, and trimmed with…
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  • 14 min
  • History

The Treasures of Pazyryk Kurgans in the Hermitage Museum

  • February 11, 2022
Pavel Azbelev, archaeologist and guides’ educator at the State Hermitage Museum, Russia, discusses the frozen treasures of Pazyryk culture, a Scythian nomadic Iron Age archaeological culture whose artifacts and mummies…
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    • 12.09.22
    • 16 min
  • What Can Golden Horde Fabrics Tell Us About Histories of Kazakhstan and Ukraine?
    • 23.09.22
    • 10 min
  • Early Soviet Modernization in the Lives of Kazakh Women
    • 19.10.22
    • 32 min
  • Central Asia in Modern Times: Architecture, Women, and Freedom. An Interview with Edda Schlager
    • 04.11.22
    • 13 min
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  • 15 min
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Political Vagabonds of the Steppe and Their Influence on Modern Eurasia. A Conversation About Qazaqlïq With Joo-Yup Lee

  • January 12, 2022
What are the origins of the Kazakh nation? What do the Kazakhs, Uzbeks, and Cossacks have in common? In this interview, Joo-Yup Lee tells us about the political vagabonds or ambitious…
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  • 7 min
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A Past That Is Neither Remembered nor Forgotten. A Tale of Two Lenin Statues in Tajikistan

  • October 1, 2021
In Soviet times, statues of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, a Russian revolutionary and the first head of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, were powerful political symbols. For most of the…
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  • 10 min
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The History of the Tajik Costume: An Interview with Guzel Maitdinova

  • June 15, 2021
In her Eurovision performance, Russian singer Manizha (of Tajik origin) wore a dress richly decorated with traditional Tajik chakan embroidery. This embroidery can be traced back to early medieval ornamentation…
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    • 08.11.22
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