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Film Screening: Islomkhodja
Elliott School of International Affairs, Room 213 1957 E St NW, WashingtonThe Central Asia Program and the American Uzbekistan Association are inviting you for a film screening of Islamkhodja At the beginning of the 20th century there lived an enlightened, innovative, humanist figure—the Grand Vizier (Prime Minister) of Khiva khanate, Islamkhodja. At the age of 17, Islamkhodja ruled the city of Hazorasp, which was considered a… Continue reading Film Screening: Islomkhodja
Remembering Kazakhstan’s Great Famine of the 1930s
May 31 marks the Remembrance Day of the Victims of Political Repression and Famine in Kazakhstan. The great famine of 1931–1933, also known as Asharshylyk, resulted from forced collectivization and sedentarization undertaken by the Soviet regime. According to some sources, more than 1.5 million people, approximately one-third of the Kazakh population, perished. Several hundred thousand survivors fled Kazakhstan to… Continue reading Remembering Kazakhstan’s Great Famine of the 1930s
The Bukharan Crisis: A Connected History of 18th – Century Central Asia
The Bukharan Crisis: A Connected History of 18th - Century Central Asia with author Scott Levi, Professor Christopher P. Atwood, and moderator Marlene Laruelle In the first half of the eighteenth century, Central Asia’s Bukharan Khanate descended into a crisis from which it would not recover. Bukharans suffered failed harvests and famine, a severe fiscal downturn, invasions… Continue reading The Bukharan Crisis: A Connected History of 18th – Century Central Asia
