The Soviet and the Post-Soviet: Street Names and National Discourse in Almaty

Mehmet Volkan Kaşikçi

Europe-Asia Studies, 2019, vol. 71, issue 8, 1345-1366

Abstract: While discussing Kazakhstan's post-Soviet identity, scholars treat ‘Kazakhisation’ as a given, and the substance of the process of developing such an identity is usually ignored. This article gives an insight into this process by analysing the politics of street names in Almaty and its relation to collective memory in post-Soviet Kazakhstan. It is argued that the so-called ‘Kazakhisation’ of the country has been shaped primarily by the Soviet legacy, and it is in no sense pursuing the elimination of the Soviet past, or moving essentially anti-Russian lines. In fact, the post-Soviet discourse of the Kazakh nation is not a rupture but a continuation of Soviet discourses.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2019.1641586

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