History – Voices On Cental Asia

The Turkish and Turkic Collections at the British Library are the largest collections of manuscript and printed material from the Turkic World housed anywhere in the United Kingdom. Michael Erdman…

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The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan with author Sarah Cameron (video and transcript)

March 14, 2019

The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan examines one of the most heinous crimes of the Stalinist regime, the Kazakh famine of 1 930–33. More than…

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How Does Central Asia Slot into the Global Jigsaw Puzzle? An interview with Peter Frankopan

December 17, 2018

Oxford University historian Peter Frankopan talks to Voices on Central Asia about his latest book, The New Silk Roads, and where Central Asia fits into the complex global jigsaw puzzle…

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The Last Soviet Mufti of Central Asia: Muhammad-Sodiq Muhammad-Yusuf

September 20, 2018

It was around the end of November 2002 that I first met and spoke with the most famous theologian in Central Asia, Muhammad-Sodiq Muhammad-Yusuf (April 15, 1952–March 10, 2015). Approximately…

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SADUM: An Effort To Establish Soviet Islam

July 12, 2018

Bakhtiyar Babadjanov, a prominent scholar of Soviet Islam, sheds some light on how the Muslims of Soviet Central Asia were administered and guided in accordance with the orders of the…

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The Conquest of Central Asia through the Turkestan Album

May 2, 2018

The Turkestan Album (Turkestanskii Al’bom—1871) was one of the great colonial photography projects of the 19th century. Commissioned by the first Russian governor-general of Russian Turkestan, Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufman,…

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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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Economic Causes of Strife in Tajikistan

March 20, 2018

Tajikistan unfortunately tends to be treated as an outlier. Located on the edge of the former USSR, it is often cited as the only former Soviet republic to have descended…

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An Insight Into Soviet Archives on Islam

January 17, 2018

Russian Perspectives on Islam (islamperspectives.org) is a unique collection of materials that documents the encounter and evolving relationship between the Orthodox/secular state and the Islamic regions, groups, individuals, and ideologies…

The Central Asia Collection at the British Library – An Interview with Michael Erdman

The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan with author Sarah Cameron (video and transcript)

How Does Central Asia Slot into the Global Jigsaw Puzzle? An interview with Peter Frankopan

The Last Soviet Mufti of Central Asia: Muhammad-Sodiq Muhammad-Yusuf

SADUM: An Effort To Establish Soviet Islam

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