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Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan is emerging as the most dynamic economic and political actor in
Central Asia. It is the second largest country of the former Soviet Union, after the
Russian Federation, and has rich natural resources, particularly oil, which is being
exploited through massive US investment. Kazakhstan has an impressive record
of economic growth under the leadership of President Nursultan Nazarbaev and
has ambitions to project itself as a modern, wealthy civic state, with a developed
market economy. At the same time, Kazakhstan is one of the most ethnically
diverse countries in the region, with very substantial non-Kazakh and non-Muslim
minorities. Its political regime has used elements of political clientelism and
neo-traditional practices to bolster its rule. Drawing from extensive ethnographic
research, interviews and archival materials this book traces the development of
national identity and statehood in Kazakhstan, focusing in particular on the
attempts to build a national state. It argues that Russification and Sovietization
were not simply ‘top–down’ processes, that they provide considerable scope for
local initiatives, and that Soviet ethnically-based affirmative action policies have
had a lasting impact on ethnic elite formation and the rise of a distinct brand of
national consciousness.
Bhavna Dave
is a lecturer in Central Asian Politics in the Department of Politics
and International Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies,
University of London. She specializes in issues of ethnic relations, identity
politics and political transition in Central Asia.
Central Asian studies series
1 Mongolia Today
Science, culture, environment and development
Edited by Dendevin Badarch and Raymond A. Zilinskas
2 Turkestan and the Fate of the Russian Empire
Daniel Brower
3 Church of the East
A concise history
Wilhelm Baum and Dietmar W. Winkler
4 Pre-tsarist and Tsarist Central Asia
Communal commitment and political order in change
Paul Georg Geiss
5 Russia’s Protectorates in Central Asia
Bukhara and Khiva, 1865–1924
Seymour Becker
6 Russian Culture in Uzbekistan
One language in the middle of nowhere
David MacFadyen
7 Everyday Islam in Post-Soviet Central Asia
Maria Elisabeth Louw
8 Kazakhstan
Ethnicity, language and power
Bhavna Dave
Kazakhstan
Ethnicity, language and power
Bhavna Dave
First published 2007
by Routledge
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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
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© 2007 Bhavna Dave
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or
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information storage or retrieval system, without permission in
writing from the publishers.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available
from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Dave, Bhavna.
Kazakhstan : ethnicity, language and power / Bhavna Dave.
p. cm. – (Central Asian studies ; 8)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Kazakhstan – Politics and government – 1991– 2. Ethnicity –
Kazakhstan. 3. Language and culture – Kazakhstan. I. Title.
DK908.8675.D39 2007
958.45–dc22
2007012294
ISBN 0-203-01489-8 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN10: 0–415–36371–3 (hbk)
ISBN10: 0–203–01489–8 (ebk)
ISBN13: 978–0–415–36371–6 (hbk)
ISBN13: 978–0–203–01489–9 (ebk)
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