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.
Acknowledgements
vii
Disclaimer
ix
Introduction
1
(8)
Catriona Kelly
SECTION I HISTORY
9
(64)
1 Limited Welfare State: On Utopia and Terror in the Third Reich and the Soviet Union
13
(16)
Mikhail Akulov
2 Stalinist Anti-Peasant Repression Policy and Its Implementation in Kazakhstan (Late 1920s-Early 1930s)
29
(28)
Zhulduzbek Abylkhozhin
3 An Episode in the History of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR in the Early 1950s
57
(16)
Zauresh Saktaganova
SECTION II MEMORY
73
(52)
4 Altynshash
77
(14)
Yuriy Serebrianskiy
5 The Winds of Time Dry Out the Grass of Oblivion
91
(18)
Ekaterina Kuznetsova
6 Between Oblivion and Remembrance
109
(16)
Alexandra Tsay
SECTION III REPRESENTATION
125
(74)
7 Reclaimed Names
129
(28)
Marinika Babanazarova
8 "Our Camp Grew into a Busy City ..." The Art of Deportee Artists in Karaganda (Late 1930s-Early 1960s)
157
(22)
Guldana Safarova
9 The Endless Time After: Art as a Medium for Understanding Cultural Memory and Trauma in Post-soviet Kazakhstan
179
(20)
Asel Kadyrkhanova
About the Contributors
199
Zhulduzbek Abylkhozhin is an independent scholar.
Mikhail Akulov is assistant professor at Nazarbayev University.
