In the context of totalitarian regimes and their aftermaths, memorial landscapes are highly contested spaces in which newly emerging governments are quite active in framing and reframing the past as well as mapping a course for the future. Unsurprisingly, statuary and other over…
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Russia's relationship with the Kazakhs in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries evolved from that of a pre-modern Muscovite state with several Inner-Asian nomadic neighbors, to that of a more centralized bureaucratic Russian Empire influenced by the European Enlightenment. The…
The study opens with a discussion of texts by “outsiders” who positioned Turkmenia as a space worthy of exploration between 1921 and 1927. Chapter One examines two essay collections by the Eurasianists— Iskhod k vostoku. Predchuvstviia i sversheniia. Utverzhdenie evraziitsev( Ex…
This dissertation is about religious practice and belief among Buddhists in the Russian Federation. Using the case studies of Kalmykia and Buryatia, two of Russia's 21 ethnic republics, I explore contemporary opinion about the relevance of Buddhism through a multiple methods app…
This dissertation is an analysis of encounters between the Soviet Union and Turkey in the years between the First and Second World Wars. While bilateral relations play an important role, the scope is wider than that of a diplomatic history; the dissertation places elements of th…
The recent resurgence of the Russian Federation into international politics has caused a great stir in the capitals of Western Europe, the Untied Stated, and those of the former Soviet Union. When looking to the behavior of the Russian state, it is critical to understand the his…
This thesis traces a complex discourse of the self in the early Soviet era, navigating the identities both assumed by and ascribed to Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev (1892-1940), a Volga Tatar and at one time the highest-ranking Muslim in the Communist Party. After the Bolshevik Revolutio…
This dissertation explores unofficial “Jewish practices” in the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 1980s. The interest and participation in such practices in the late Soviet period are usually analyzed within either “totalitarian” or Zionist frameworks, which represent them as manife…
This thesis examines the phenomenon of Chala-Qazaqs: groups of mixed ethnic origin who lived in the Kazakh steppe. Chala-Qazaqs, or "half-Kazakhs," emerged as a result of the rigid kinship system and patrilineal succession adopted by the steppe nomads. Since Kazakhs inherited th…
This dissertation is a study of the writing of Olzhas Sūleimenov, Ilīyas Esenberlīn, and Yuri Dombrovsky and the reflections on paper and taxonomy in their works Az i ia (1975), Köşpendiler (Nomads, 1976), and the Khranitel' drevnostei (Keeper of Antiquities, 1964). It is a stud…
This study traces the course of the two largest compact population movements in the history of Imperial Russia as experiments in social alchemy, whereby Russian officials sought to convert the Caucasus into a society of loyal, productive subjects. Resettlement opened avenues for…
From 1965-1975, the Soviet-Egyptian relationship was the cornerstone of Moscow's policy in the Middle East. The Kremlin's alignment with the epicenter of the Arab world permitted the articulation of military, political and economic objectives designed to enhance its own power an…
This dissertation examines the relationship between leadership politics and the public articulation of collective identity. It explores the ways in which discussions about identity related to power, authority, and politics at the community level. Focusing primarily upon the Musl…
This dissertation studies the development of relations between Kazakhs and Siberian Cossacks in the period between the inclusion of the Kazakh Middle and Younger Hordes in the Russian Empire in the 1730s and the beginning of the twentieth century. The research is based on primar…
מטרתה של העבודה היא סקירה של מדיניותו המשתנה של מיכאיל גורבצ'וב, מזכ"ל המפלגה הקומוניסטית האחרון, כלפי ארגוני שחרור לאומי ומשטרים מהפכניים בין השנים 1991-1985 .על מנת לספק הקשר לרמת השינוי של המדיניות תחת גורבצ'וב, העבודה תציג רקע היסטורי לארגוני שחרור לאומי, המזוהים עם עקרונות …
This thesis examines the early works of Soviet conceptual performance art group Collective Actions, founded in 1976, and focuses on the way the group employed the concept of “emptiness” as a motif throughout its practice. Notions of nothingness, emptiness, and dematerialization …
This thesis aims to explore the dynamics of exchange operating in special relationships initially formed and largely sustained on an amicable basis between two states of vastly unequal power. The claim is made that the weak state is likely to be adversely affected in the longer …
For Russia, religion is one factor that fostered its formation and assisted in the development of all facets of its culture. A current analysis of the relations between the Russian state and Islam is, therefore, the foundation of this study. The changes that took place in the re…