On writing Soviet History of Central Asia: frameworks, challenges, prospects

Kassymbekova, Botakoz; Chokobaeva, Aminat

doi:10.1080/02634937.2021.1976728

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“…In the context of 20 th century Central Asia, the rapid growth of cotton production, settler colonisation, and extraction of resources was started by the Imperial Russian and completed by the Soviet governments (Kassymbekova and Chokobaeva 2021:489). In the Soviet Union, these areas functioned as primary sites of cotton production ensuring that the Soviet textile industry in the European parts of the country would not need to rely on imports (Kalinovsky 2020).…”

Section: Post‐soviet Social Reproductionmentioning

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“…Sometimes analyses of social reproduction operate within local, national, or comparative frameworks, taking a locality or nation‐state as the site of reproduction of workers. Here, we examine the dynamics of social reproduction transnationally, across the post‐Soviet space—a term which we use to refer to not only to the geographic areas that were part of the Soviet Union but also to the complex relations that derive from the legacies of the Russo‐Soviet imperial project (Kassymbekova and Chokobaeva 2021; Koplatadze 2019). We probe how expectations and models related to marriages and family life lubricate the migratory movement from Central Asia or the South Caucasus to Russia.…”

Section: Post‐soviet Social Reproductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Social Reproduction of Post‐Soviet Migrant Labour: Braiding the International Political Economy

Kangas

Krivonos

Khidjobova³

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In this article, we analyse the social reproduction of post‐Soviet migrant labour. Our inquiry builds on artwork by Olga Jitlina and Anna Tereshkina and by Mahpora Kiromova dealing with the effects of migration on family relations in Central Asia and the South Caucasus. We have braided the artwork with strands of social reproduction theory to examine the transnational household as a set of relationships that enables post‐Soviet and global capitalism to draw value out of unwaged work and to reproduce the differentiated (i.e. gendered and racialised) labour force. Our focus is on the tropes of family, weddings, love, and violence. The analysis of these tropes draws attention to the intersecting effects of globalised capitalism, local structures of value, the state, and patriarchy in post‐Soviet political economy. Through them we detail the fundamental co‐constitution of production and social reproduction, but also show that practices of social reproduction can be reservoirs of resistance and potential change.

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Section: Post‐soviet Social Reproductionmentioning

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Section: Post‐soviet Social Reproductionmentioning

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Social Reproduction of Post‐Soviet Migrant Labour: Braiding the International Political Economy

Kangas

Krivonos

Khidjobova³

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“…Including the region in the discussion on race and coloniality would complicate some of the arguments, as the region typically described under the banner of 'postsocialism' includes both the colonized and the colonizers (e.g. Russia and the Soviet Union), those who have some 'European potential' and racialized as white or 'whiter', and those discarded by modernity altogether (Balogun, 2018;Kassymbekova and Chokobaeva, 2021;Manolova, 2021;Tlostanova, 2018). Not fitting into the North/South binaries, 'Eastness' has underscored a position of 'in-betweenness' -not-quite-North, not-quite-South, white-but-not-quite (Blagojević, 2009;Zarycki, 2014).…”

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Carrying Europe’s ‘White Burden’, Sustaining Racial Capitalism: Young Post-Soviet Migrant Workers in Helsinki and Warsaw

Krivonos

2022

Sociology

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The opening up of sociology to postcolonial and critical race thinking has been predominantly animated by the relations between western metropoles and their (post)colonies. ‘Eastern Europe’ seems to be an uneasy fit in this discussion, being excluded from the idea of ‘Europe’; at the same time, it is not grouped together with non-European Others in terms of colonial histories. Drawing on fieldwork among young Russian and Ukrainian migrant workers in Helsinki (2014–2016) and Warsaw (2020), the article examines global connections that tie the North/West, South and East in these migrants’ imaginaries and material lives after migration. I demonstrate that Eastern European subjects are not outsiders to global racial capitalist orders but participate in sustaining a colonial project of Europe, whiteness and labour. The article argues for the importance of articulating postcoloniality of Eastern Europe vis-a-vis the West together with race to show the complicity of semi-peripheries with the global structures of racial capitalism.

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“…During the Soviet era, Central Asia was fully incorporated into a part of the Moscow-led empire. While Cold War scholarship viewed Central Asia as a colony of Soviet Russia par excellence, later work has sought to integrate colonialist explanations with frameworks of Soviet socialist modernity, modernization, and development [ 23 ].…”

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Russia’s Approach to Connectivity in Asia: From Cooperation to Coercion

Silvan

Kaczmarski

2023

East Asia

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Russia’s foreign policy concept, last updated in 2023, envisioned economic and political cooperation with countries of the Asia-Pacific as important for advancing Russia’s agenda as a global power and emphasised the need to improve connectivity across Eurasia. This article applies a novel theoretical framework for analysing Russia’s approach to connectivity in Asia since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Drawing from policy documents and secondary sources, the article identifies three different geographical spaces targeted by Russian connectivity policy: East of the Russian Federation, post-Soviet Central Asia, and Greater Eurasia. It is argued that the attempts to improve the cooperative connectivity of the Russian Far East have been half-hearted. In contrast, the attempt to retain and rebuild connectivity within the post-Soviet space has followed the logics of competition, containment, and coercion. Moreover, by promoting the Greater Eurasian Partnership, Russia has sought to keep status equality with China against the backdrop of the latter’s Belt and Road Initiative. The article maintains that Russia is a connectivity actor of its own right, even if there is a major gap between its connectivity strategy and its implementation. It further suggests that the war in Ukraine has accelerated the trend towards coercion and disconnectivity.

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On writing Soviet History of Central Asia: frameworks, challenges, prospects

Cited by 16 publications

References 63 publications

Social Reproduction of Post‐Soviet Migrant Labour: Braiding the International Political Economy

Social Reproduction of Post‐Soviet Migrant Labour: Braiding the International Political Economy

Carrying Europe’s ‘White Burden’, Sustaining Racial Capitalism: Young Post-Soviet Migrant Workers in Helsinki and Warsaw

Russia’s Approach to Connectivity in Asia: From Cooperation to Coercion

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