Connecting the Dots Around the XUAR Camps:Bringing Together a Year of Diverse Research
A new post is live at The CESS blog by Rune Steenberg of University of Copenhagen, Connecting the Dots Around the XUAR Camps: Bringing Together a Year of Diverse Research It has been a good year since the international media and organisations world wide have begun to pay increased attention to the internment camps in […]
Author Interview: Leah Feldman on “On the Threshold of Eurasia: Revolutionary Poetics in the Caucasus”
In this fourth and final installment of our author interview series, the CESS blog is pleased to welcome Bruce Grant (New York University), in conversation with the winner of this year’s CESS book prize, Leah Feldman (University of Chicago) for her work On the Threshold of Eurasia: Revolutionary Poetics in the Caucasus. From the Cornell […]
Author Interview: Jeff Eden on “Slavery and Empire in Central Asia”
A new post is live at The CESS blog. In this third installation of our series featuring those books shortlisted by CESS for this year’s prize, Sergey Salushchev (University of California, Santa Barbara) who interviews Jeff Eden (St. Mary’s College of Maryland) about his book Slavery and Empire in Central Asia. From the Cambridge University Press website: […]
More of the Same: Kazakhstan’s Leadership Change Between Ageing Leadership and Popular Discontent
A new post is now up at The CESS blog by Luca Anceschi of University of Glasgow, More of the Same: Kazakhstan’s Leadership Change Between Ageing Leadership and Popular Discontent If there is only one lesson to be learned from Kyrgyzstan’s recent presidential dispute—a chain of tumultuous events that led to the arrest and detention […]
The History of Soviet Anthropology in Kazakhstan
In this special post Rinat Shayakhmetov, grandson of the first Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan Zhumabay Shayakhmetov and himself a researcher of Soviet Kazakhstan, presents a narrative history of his uncle Noel Shayakhmetov, one of Kazakhstan’s first scientists working in the field of physical anthropology.
Author Interview: Sarah Cameron on “The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan”
A new post is live at The CESS blog. In this second installation of our series featuring those books shortlisted by CESS for this year’s prize, we welcome Nurlan Kabdylkhak (University of North Carolina) who interviews Sarah Cameron (University of Maryland).
Author Interview: Artemy Kalinovsky on “Laboratory of Socialist Development: Cold War Politics and Decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan”
A new post is live at The CESS blog. This is the first in a series of author interviews highlighting the books shortlisted for this year’s prize. Here we welcome Malika Bahovadinova’s interview of Artemy Kalinovsky on Laboratory of Socialist Development: Cold War Politics and Decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan (Cornell University Press 2018). “Artemy Kalinovsky’s […]
Aging in the Absence of the Young and in the Presence of the Ancestor Spirits
A new post is live at The CESS blog by Maria Louw of Aarhus University, “Aging in the Absence of the Young and in the Presence of the Ancestor Spirits”
The Cotton Republic: Colonial Practices in Soviet Uzbekistan?
A new post is live at The CESS Blog, by Riccardo Mario Cucciolla (NRU HSE), “The Cotton Republic: Colonial Practices in Soviet Uzbekistan?”
Author Interview: Film and Identity in Kazakhstan
A recent interview with Rico Isaacs, author of Film and Identity in Kazakhstan: Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture in Central Asia (Bloomsbury 2018), has been published at The CESS Blog.
