This project concerns Turkish-Armenian relations and the impact of the collective memory of the Armenian Genocide on this relationship. Contested memories of these events have come to form important parts of both Turkish and Armenian identity. The research focuses on why the Arm…
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This dissertation explores the fate of ethnic groups internally deported by the Soviet leadership during the Second World War. Known collectively in the literature as "The Punished Peoples", the Russian Germans, Karachays, Kalmyks, Chechens, Ingush, Balkars, and Crimean Tatars w…
This dissertation examines the impact of World War II and German occupation on individual lives, social communities, and the Soviet state in Belorussia. A seemingly remote and marginal space, this Soviet republic and European borderland in fact encapsulated the extremes of twent…
With its semi-colonized status on the eve of World War I, the Ottoman Empire was politically too weak to endure the Great Powers' pressures. The lack of wise ruling cadres and the subsequent embracement of partnership with Germany took the Empire into the war. The Empire fought …
At the intersection of English anthropology and Russian ethnography in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century was the body of approaches loosely termed "evolutionism," and one of the most enduring ideas at the heart of this trend was the concept of "survivals" (perezhit…
This thesis examines and analyzes the Soviet Union's religious policies through a comparison of policy toward the Russian Orthodox Church and that toward Islam. It explains the differences in religious policy between each Soviet leader, while further breaking down each leader's …
This thesis will examine the interdependent relationship of drugs, border security, and sovereignty following the 1991 collapse of communism in Russia and the 2001 US-led overthrow of the Taliban in Afghanistan. Regime changes, particularly in Russia, led to a sharp decline in s…
This dissertation is a study of imperial epistemology—the Russian Empire's attempts to produce useful knowledge about the Kazakh steppe, and the complex interrelationships between geographic, ethnographic, and statistical accounts of the region and imperial power. The dissertati…
Abstract: This study tests two interventions conducted in Afghanistan: The USSR's between 1979 and 1989, and that of the United States from 2001 to the present day. Using Paul Kennedy's hypothesis of Imperial Overstretch as a guideline, an analytical understanding of the hypothe…
During the First World War, the Russian Caucasian Army had occupied a territory comprising the Ottoman provinces of Trabzon, Erzurum, Van, and, for a shorter period, Bitlis. The region that the Russian forces occupied was depopulated to a great extent due to the deportation and …
The overall purpose of this film is to break the Russian stereotype by exploring the lives of Afro-Russians. When people think of Russians, they often think of people with blonde hair, fair skin, and blue eyes. This is not true and will never be true. Russians come in different …
Using extensive primary sources, the thesis examines the direction, changes and ramifications of Tsarist-Bolshevik policy towards the Armenian question in the Ottoman Empire from 1912–20. As background to the main theme of the thesis, the 19th century emergence of the Armenian q…
The Ghosts of Empires Past is a study of Cold War neo-imperialism and its effects on left-wing terrorist organizations of the 1970s. Specifically, this is a study of the reasons why Cold War neo-imperialism led to a rise of particular forms of violence among leftist terrorist or…
This dissertation discusses children and childhood in Soviet Kazakhstan from 1928 to 1953. By exploring images of, and for, children, and by focusing on children’s fates during and after the famine of 1930-33, I argue that the regime’s success in making children socialist subjec…
Medieval Russian literature depicts the Mongols as ungodly and destructive, and it emphasizes the Russians as antithetical to their barbaric conquerors. Traditionalists have used this literature to discredit Mongol rule in Russia and blame the Mongols for Russia’s “backwardness”…
This dissertation demonstrates that socialist cultural policies, implemented in Chinese and Soviet Central Asia in the middle decades of the twentieth century, enabled Turkic Muslim intellectuals in the small Sino-Soviet frontier community of Ili to transform their local culture…
Between 1900 and the commencement of the First World War in 1914, the Russian government under Tsar Nicholas II (1894-1917) engineered an expansion of its European based espionage agency called the Foreign Agentura. During that period, Italy had become a haven for Russian extrem…
This dissertation is a historical study of the city of Baku, Azerbaijan, and its oil industry from the 1870s to the present, covering the tsarist Russian, Soviet, and post-Soviet eras. The history of the Baku oil industry offers a clear, focused example of the social and physica…