On a handful of occasions, I have encountered an interesting phenomenon in conversation with some citizens of the Republic of … More
Category: Soviet History
Translation: Tynyshpaev, "Ak-taban-shubryndy"
This translation requires an admission of guilt. I am ashamed that I have left this translation only half-completed on other … More
Shahkarim Qudaiberdiev: Introduction to Translations
I will be posting some translations of some texts written by Shahkarim Qudaiberdiev, but I would like to preface those … More
Rhetoric and National History
National history stumbles when it perceives its subject as a population defined by membership in a specific group to the … More
Orientalism
“And… so what?” The question that many fear to encounter after delivering an agonizingly-constructed, seemingly-whole argument is a powerful tool. … More
A Vestige of Soviet Historiography
(This is a restating and paraphrasing of some theoretical work by the scholars Anatolii Khazanov and N.N. Kradin) Feudalism is … More
Kazakh History in the 1940s
I recently requested Istoriia Kazakhskoi SSR s drevneishikh vremen do nashikh dnei [History of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic from … More
