Azan on the Moon is an in-depth anthropological study of people's lives along the Pamir
Highway in eastern Tajikistan. Constructed in the 1930s in rugged high-altitude terrain, the …

The drying up of the Aral Sea-a major environmental catastrophe of the late twentieth
century-is deeply rooted in the dreams of the irrigation age of the late nineteenth and early …

Nested Nationalism is a study of the politics and practices of managing national minority
identifications, rights, and communities in the Soviet Union and the personal and political …

Jeff Sahadeo reveals the complex and fascinating stories of migrant populations in
Leningrad and Moscow. Voices from the Soviet Edge focuses on the hundreds of thousands …

The article reviews major frameworks for re-evaluating Soviet Central Asian history in
anglophone scholarship after the collapse of the Soviet Union. It tackles recent popular …

Counter-extremism has become an important tool for the authoritarian government of
Tajikistan to consolidate its position. In this article, we argue that counter-extremism is not …

The essay challenges the frequent references to the concept of Soviet nationality policy by
historians and social scientists. The argument proceeds, first, by unpicking some of the logic …

This article explores post-Soviet power hierarchies which constitute a unique system of
vertical stratification in world politics. It does so by analysing relations between two former …

In July 1941, the Soviet Union was in mortal danger. Imperiled by the Nazi invasion and
facing catastrophic losses, Stalin called on the Soviet people to “subordinate everything to …

Central Asia remains on the periphery, both spatially and in people's imaginations. When
the region does attract international attention, it is often related to security issues, including …