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Central Asian Studies
Interviews with scholars of Central Asia about their new books.
November 19, 2024
The Eastern International
In the first few years after the Russian Revolution, an ideological project coalesced to link the development of what Stalin demarcated as the interna…
November 16, 2024
Reflections on Stalinism
In this episode, Alisa talks with Lewis H. Siegelbaum, who, along with J. Arch Getty, edited Reflections on Stalinism (Northern Illinois University Pr…
November 13, 2024
Speaking Soviet with an Accent
In this episode, Alisa talks with Ali İğmen, Professor of Central Asian History and the Director of the Oral History Program at California State Unive…
October 9, 2024
Stalin's Genocides
Absolutely no one doubts that Stalin murdered millions of people in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. His ruthless campaign of "dekulakization," his pitiles…
September 26, 2024
Collectivization and Social Engineering
In Collectivization and Social Engineering: Soviet Administration and the Jews of Uzbekistan, 1917-1939 (Brill, 2015), Zeev Levin seeks to provide a c…
September 21, 2024
The Secret Police and the Soviet System
The Secret Police and the Soviet System: New Archival Investigations (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023) compiles an array of recent scholarship that draws on …
August 26, 2024
New Media and Political Participation in Russia and Kazakhstan
Dr. Yerkebulan Sairambay’s New Media and Political Participation in Russia and Kazakhstan (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023) confronts the sociological p…
August 18, 2024
A Sacred Space Is Never Empty
The specter of the “Godless” Soviet Union haunted the United States and continental Western Europe throughout the Cold War, but what did atheism mean …
August 17, 2024
Russian Orientalism in a Global Context
Russian Orientalism in a Global Context: Hybridity, Encounter, and Representation, 1740-1940 (Manchester UP, 2023) features new research on Russia's h…
August 2, 2024
Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan
Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan: Locating the Good Life (UCL Press, 2024) by Dr. Elena Borisova is the first ethnographic monograph on migration …
July 14, 2024
Fantastic Fauna from China to Crimea: Image-Making in Eurasian Nomadic Societies, 700 BCE-500 CE
Numerous Iron-Age nomadic alliances flourished along the 5000-mile Eurasian steppe route. From Crimea to the Mongolian grassland, nomadic image-making…
July 2, 2024
Rentier Capitalism and Its Discontents
Balihar Sanghera and Elmira Satybaldieva’s Rentier Capitalism and Its Discontents: Power, Morality and Resistance in Central Asia (Palgrave MacMillan,…
May 12, 2024
The Soviet Nuclear Archipelago
In this episode of the CEU Press Podcast, host Andrea Talabér (CEU Press/CEU Review of Books) sat down with Per Högselius and Achim Klüppelberg to dis…
May 1, 2024
Xiongnu
In Xiongnu: The World’s First Nomadic Empire (Oxford UP, 2024), Bryan K. Miller weaves together archaeology and history to chart the course of the Xio…
March 13, 2024
Legal Cultures in the Russian Empire
Law. How does the state form and use it? How do people use and shape it? How does law shape culture? How does the practice of law change over time in …
December 30, 2023
Soviet and Muslim
How was the Soviet Union able to avoid issues of religious and national conflict with its large and diverse Islamic population? In his new book, Sovie…
December 29, 2023
Between Truth and Time
In Between Truth and Time: A History of Soviet Central Television (Yale University Press, 2016), Christine E. Evans reveals that Soviet television in …
December 8, 2023
Life & Legacy
Through stunning images, maps and insightful commentary, Life & Legacy: A Window into Jewish Life Across the Islamic World (U Groningen Press, 2023) o…
December 2, 2023
Empires of the Steppes
The “barbarian” nomads of the Eurasian steppes have played a decisive role in world history, but their achievements have gone largely unnoticed. These…
November 7, 2023
Picturing Russian Empire
Picturing Russian Empire (Oxford UP, 2023) appears as Russia’s imperialist war of aggression against Ukraine grinds on. The stakes could not be higher…