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Stalinism in Kazakhstan: History, Memory, and Representation is a multi-disciplinary collection of essays from Central Asian authors. The volume is devoted to violence and socio-economic transformation during the Stalinist repressions in Kazakhstan and explores collective trauma, selective memory, and representations in contemporary art and literature.

Table of Contents

I History
Chapter 1: Limited Welfare State: On Utopia and Terror in the Third Reich and the Soviet Union
Chapter 2: Stalinist Anti-Peasant Repression Policy and its Implementation in Kazakhstan (Late 1920s–Early1930s)
Chapter 3: An Episode in the History of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR in the Early 1950s
II Memory 
Chapter 4: Altynshash
Chapter 5: The Winds of Time Dry Out the Grass of Oblivion
Chapter 6: Between Oblivion and Remembrance
III Representation
Chapter 7: Reclaimed Names
Chapter 8: “Our Camp Grew into a Busy City…” The Art of Deportee Artists in Karaganda (late 1930s-early 1960s)
Chapter 9: The Endless Time After: Art as a Medium for Understanding Cultural Memory and Trauma in Post-soviet Kazakhstan

Product details

Published Mar 24 2021
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 212
ISBN 9781793641625
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 23 b/w illustrations; 1 tables;
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Zhulduzbek Abylkhozhin

Zhulduzbek Abylkhozhin is professor of history at…

Anthology Editor

Mikhail Akulov

Mikhail Akulov is assistant professor at Nazarbaye…

Anthology Editor

Alexandra Tsay

Alexandra Tsay is an independent scholar.

Contributor

Zhulduzbek Abylkhozhin

Zhulduzbek Abylkhozhin is professor of history at…

Contributor

Mikhail Akulov

Mikhail Akulov is assistant professor at Nazarbaye…

Contributor

Catriona Kelly

Contributor

Alexandra Tsay

Alexandra Tsay is an independent scholar.

Translator

Simon Pawley

Translator

Anton Platonov

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