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He Dreamed That One Day His Country Would Become a Second Japan. Khalel Dosmukhamedov (1883–1939)
This chapter tells about the doctor and public figure Kh. Dosmukhamedov, who saw the reasons for the misfortune of his people in colonization and...
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Dreamed of Transferring Power to the People. Zhakhansha Dosmukhamedov (1887–1938)
This chapter describes the activities of the lawyer Zh. Dosmukhamedov, who defended the idea of autonomy for the Kazakhs. After criticizing the land...
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Suffered for Sincerity. Magzhan Zhumabaev (1893–1938)
This chapter is dedicated to the greatest Kazakh poet M. Zhumabaev, who was a true innovator of Kazakh poetry. He defended the freedom of literature...
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Continuing the Fight Alone. Mustafa Shokay (1890–1941)
The chapter talks about M. Shokay, the official representative of the Provisional Government in the Turkestan region. Having emigrated during the...
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An Educator who Dreamed of Leading the People to Freedom Through Education. Akhmet Baitursynov (1873–1938)
This chapter details information about the educator A. Baitursynov, who dreamed of paving the way for his people to the future through education. He...
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To Protect the People with the Law, Pen, and Weapon in Hand. Raimzhan Marsekov (1877–194?)
The chapter is dedicated to the activities of the lawyer, expert in international law, and outstanding publicist R. Marsekov, who devoted his life to...
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The Negotiator with Stalin. Khalel Gabbasov (1888–1931)
This chapter is dedicated to a member of the Alash government Kh. Gabbasov. He conducted telephone conversations with the People’s Commissar for...
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Doctor in Extreme Conditions. Baktygali Beisenov (1889–1938)
The chapter tells about the doctor B. Beisenov, who had to work in conditions of revolution, civil war, epidemics, famine, and devastation. He was...
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Dreamed of Enlightening the People. Seit-Battal Mustafin (1892–1937)
This chapter tells about the educator, writer, and journalist S.-B. Mustafina. He promoted the idea of Kazakh independence and the need to fight for...
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Twice Sentenced to Death and Twice Rehabilitated. Gazymbek Beremzhanov (1896–1938)
The chapter tells about the journalist and public figure G. Beremzhanov, who, along with other Kazakh students, went to the Southwestern Front to...
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Witness to Resettlement Policy. Satylgan Sabataev (1874–1921)
The chapter gives information about the translator of the resettlement institution, then the agronomist S. Sabataev, who defended the rights of the...
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Deprived of the Created Heritage. Koshmukhambet Kemengerov (1896–1937)
The chapter is devoted to the activities of the representative of Kazakh literature, journalist, and educator K. Kemengerov. With the production of...
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Paradoxes of Soviet Coloniality: The Case of “Az I YA” by Olzhas Suleimenov
The chapter analyzes the book of the Kazakh poet Olzhas Suleimenov “Az i YA. The Book of a Well-Intentioned Reader,” in the context of post-colonial...
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Fitting into a Secular Society: Hybrid Practices of the Islamic Public and Islamic Businesses in Astana
Based on the ethnography of mosques and halal cafes in Astana, this chapter argues that aspirations for modernity, urbanity, and civility can be...
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Conspiracies and Cosmonauts: The Baikonur Cosmodrome and Popular Narratives of Ecological Disaster in Contemporary Kazakhstan
In Soviet-era tellings, the Baikonur Cosmodrome was glorified as the most dramatic example of a technological prowess that would catapult society...
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Colonization and Control in the Making of a Eurasian Empire
Much scholarship on the Middle Volga region (Tatarstan, Bashkortostan) disengages from the issues of cultural, political, and economic domination and...
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Culture of Remembrance in Kazakhstan at the Turn of the Twentieth to Twenty-First Centuries
This chapter will consider different narratives of the oblivion, dismantlement, and transfer of Soviet monuments and traumatic and postcolonial...
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The Politics of Culture
The cultural turn in the social sciences of the 1970s had a profound impact in Latin America and led to the emergence of a cultural political economy...
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Return to the Future
The future is open, it is not pre determined, we can act upon it. We explore the ways in which Buen Vivir may contribute to this new future and as an...
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Coloniality of Power
This chapter sets the terrain of colonialism in Latin America and argues for the ‘coloniality of power’. It shows how colonialism not only seized the...