Stalinism in Kazakhstan - History, Memory, and Representation

Stalinism in Kazakhstan: History, Memory, and Representation explores Stalinist repressions in Kazakhstan through analyses of collective trauma, selective memory, and representations in contemporary art and literature.

List 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

About the author

Edited by Zhulduzbek Abylkhozhin; Mikhail Akulov and Alexandra Tsay - Translated by Simon Pawley and Anton Platonov - Contributions by Zhulduzbek Abylkhozhin; Mikhail Akulov; Marinika Babanazarova; Assel Kadyrkhanova; Catriona Kelly; Yekaterina Kuznetsova

Summary

Stalinism in Kazakhstan: History, Memory, and Representation explores Stalinist repressions in Kazakhstan through analyses of collective trauma, selective memory, and representations in contemporary art and literature.

Product details

• Authors: Zhulduzbek Akulov Abylkhozhin
• Assisted by: Zhulduzbek Abylkhozhin (Editor), Mikhail Akulov (Editor), Alexandra Tsay (Editor), Simon Pawley (Translation), Pawley Simon (Translation), Anton Platonov (Translation)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9781793641625
• ISBN: 978-1-79364-162-5
• No. of pages: 212
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); European History, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Kazakhstan, General and world history, Development Studies, Development economics & emerging economies, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, Development economics and emerging economies, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, HISTORY / Russia / General