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The Creation of Kazakh National Identity: The Relationship with Russia, 1900-2015

The Creation of Kazakh National Identity: The Relationship with Russia, 1900-2015

Shlapentokh, Dmitry V.

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Series: Routledge Studies in Modern History

Central Asian HistoryGeneral World HistoryRussian History

ISBN10: 1032196157
ISBN13: 9781032196152
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 27 2025
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This monograph utilizes three theoretical models to explain Kazakhstan's emergence as an independent state and its changing relationships with the broader world, particularly Russia, since the beginning of the twentieth century.

The book first explores the construction of Kazakh national identity and the ways in which intellectuals appealed to history to substantiate their claims about Kazakhstan's future. Secondly, the narrative demonstrates that not all segments of totalitarian machinery work in unison. While terror reached its peak in the 1930s, cultural and ideological control was not as rigid as it would become in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Most importantly, the work is grounded in the study of the social universe. The book introduces the notion of cosmos, the peculiar connections between social, economic, and political forces. While not necessarily directly dependent on each other, they nevertheless created a unique interplay among the segments of societal structures and the state's relationship with the wider universe. Taking this framework as the point of departure, this research analyzes Kazakhstan's multi-vectorism as uniquely fit to contemporary global arrangements, when no global power dominates, and the lines between friend and foe are blurred.

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