DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.7160/KS.2024.230207 Author: Jerzy Rohoziński Affiliation: The Center for Totalitarian Studies, The Pilecki Institute, Foksal Street 17, 00-372 Warsaw, Poland Email: j.rohozinski@instytutpileckiego.pl Language: English Issue: 2/2024 (23) Pages: 152-188 (37 pages) Keywords: Religious revival, Soviet Union, Kazakhstan, Postwar period, Licensed religion, Underground religion, Ethnic communities Abstract The patriotic fervour surrounding the „Great Patriotic War,“ amplified…
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Soviet Nationality Policy towards Kurds, 1917-1956
DOI: 10.7160/KS.2022.190204 Author: J. Otto Pohl Affiliation: Independent researcher Email: j.ottopohl@gmail.com Language: English Issue: 2/2022 (19) Pages: 78–92 (15 pages) Keywords: Kurds, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, NKVD, special settlers Abstract Soviet policy towards its Kurdish minority shifted from supporting their cultural development during the 1920s and early 1930s to a more repressive policy from 1937–1956 and then…
A Dozen Years of Central Asia: an archaeologist’s blog
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7160/KS.2022.180103 Author: Heinrich Härke Affiliation: Eberhard‑Karls‑Universität Tübingen, Institute for Prehistory, Early History and Medieval Archaeology, Department of Medieval Archaeology, 72070 Tübingen, Germany Email: heinrich.haerke@uni‑tuebingen.de Language: English Issue: 1/2022 (18) Pages: 57–80 (24 pages) Keywords: Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, archaeology, politics of archaeology, Dzhankent Abstract The paper provides, in a series of anecdotal observations…
Zoroastrian tradition at Mangyshlak – underground mosque Shakpak-Ata
Zoroastrijská tradice na Mangyšlaku – podzemní mešita Šakpak-Ata / Zoroastrian tradition at Mangyshlak – underground mosque Shakpak-Ata Author: Petr Kment Published: 1 November 2018 Česká verze: HTML The Kazakh peninsula of Mangyshlak, apart from its geographical specifics – there is a depression with the lowest altitude in Central Asia (-132 m) – can also boast…
Causes and impacts of labour migration in Uzbekistan
Author: Andrea Štolfová Affiliation: Provozně ekonomická fakulta ČZU v Praze, Faculty of Economics and Management, CULS Prague Email: andrea.stolfova@gmail.com ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0832-1485 Language: English / Czech Issue: 1/2014 Pages: 23–45 (23 pages) Keywords: Migration, Inhabitants of Uzbekistan, Russia, Kazakhstan, family, Traditional values, Rural life Summary/Abstract This paper focuses on work migration among Uzbek inhabitants, for…