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Share your thoughts with other customers. Write a customer review. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. This is a good solid book on the connections between Soviet formation of citizens and ethnic groups in Central Asia, and the way in which local Soviet elites have transformed themselves into post-Soviet national leaders. Dave argues that the Kazakh state is modeled on earlier Soviet ideas of a nation, a citizen, and a national or ethnic culture, and that this model provides a means for elites to use Kazakh ethnicity and language as continuing means of power.
Very academic, but a good exploration of these ideas in the context of post-independence Kazakhstan. One person found this helpful 2 people found this helpful. Amazon Giveaway allows you to run promotional giveaways in order to create buzz, reward your audience, and attract new followers and customers. Learn more about Amazon Giveaway. Set up a giveaway. There's a problem loading this menu right now. A new societal divide between urbanite Russian-speaking Kazakhs and rural Kazakh-speakers was thus created.
During the Soviet era, most Kazakh intellectuals were Russian-speakers. In other words, because of the strong linguistic Russification of the Kazakh social and political elite, the state did not try to eradicate the predominance of Russian, even though it promoted an increased use of Kazakh in the administration and the media. In Kazakhstan the personification of this system was Dinmukhammed Kunaev, at the head of Kazakhstan Communist Party almost continuously from to Since Russians in Kazakhstan lacked an ethnic territorial unit of their own, they also lacked administrative tools and a local political elite capable of presenting their grievances.
Dave reminds us that in Kazakhstan, as in other post-Soviet states, the legacy of the Soviet system largely prevented the formation of ethnic economic niches. Amy Chua notwithstanding, no ethnic groups formed an entrepreneurial diaspora in post-Soviet states comparable to, say, the Chinese in Malaysia in the s.
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The overall problem of the book is its unresolved methodological ambiguity between anthropology, history and political science. Kazakhstan has an impressive record of economic growth under the leadership of President Nursultan Nazarbaev, and has ambitions to project itself as a modern, wealthy civic state, with a developed market economy. At the same time, Kazakhstan is one of the most ethnically diverse countries in the region, with very substantial non-Kazakh and non-Muslim minorities. Its political regime has used elements of political clientelism and neo-traditional practices to bolster its rule.
Drawing from extensive ethnographic research, interviews, and archival materials this book traces the development of national identity and statehood in Kazakhstan, focusing in particular on the attempts to build a national state. A Very Short Introduction.
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