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Botakoz Kassymbekova

Botakoz Kassymbekova is professor of Eastern European history at the University of Zurich, with a specialization in Soviet history, Stalinism and post-Stalinism, and Russian imperial history. Her book Despite Cultures: Early Soviet Rule in Tajikistan (2016) traces Soviet imperial strategies in Central Asia. She is guest editor of the volume Stalinism and Central Asia with Central Asian Survey (2016). Her current research project investigates the post-Stalinist Soviet Union and analyzes how Soviet citizens (un)processed Stalinism in their later lives. 
Other texts by Botakoz Kassymbekova for DIAPHANES
  • propaganda
  • analytics of power
  • intelligence sercive
  • Russia