Description
Book SynopsisStalinism 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 ContentsI 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