Jan Tustikbaev

History of Central Asia, inequality, ideology

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@Paulie_WT Thank you for the remark. Bought all-access pass yesterday by choosing over another expert. The start was unexpected, but I stay fully supportive and optimistic. Such honest remarks are also encouraging - not smt to be found in every expert platform, but they matter. All the best

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OpenAI developed a tool to detect its own AI-generated content but chose not to release it publicly.
https://t.co/MT2eBl6PrY

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Fukuyama, from his book Identity.
Political instability is often driven not by the poorest, but by middle classes

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"Probing a text can be enjoyable but also tiring, even borderline painful. That’s good. Exhausting our mental faculties, such as through deep reading or effortful writing, is what makes them more potent. Physical exercise works the same way. ..."

https://t.co/zf3mgkldso

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The Soviet classical textbook (1979) claims that Slavic settlers had a "positive" influence on native people in Kazakhstan in the late 19th century – while it actually was the period of intense settler colonialism, as Kazakhs massively were losing the land.

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While some in post-1991 Kazakhstan romanticize, not many are aware that Kazakh intelligentsia fought against nomadism a century ago, urging for sedentarization.

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"... hard-line Russifiers infuriated an otherwise loyal, and largely cultural, nationalism. It was the Russian nationalists, more than non-Russians nationalism, who helped destabilize the Russian empire."

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@DurdiyevaSelbi @ADoolotkeldieva ARTEMY M. KALINOVSKY, Laboratory of Socialist Development
Cold War Politics and Decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan. Cornell University Press, 2018.

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Lenin in 1919 "Scratch any Communist and you find a Great Russian chauvinist .... He sits in many of us and we must fight him."

Still applies in 2024

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A fascinating new poll by Levada. Asked if they would support ending the war if Putin decided to do so, 71% of Russian respondents agree (21% are opposed). Asked if they would support ending the war while returning the annexed territories to Ukraine, 30% agree (60% are opposed).

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Linguistic russification of ethnic Kazakhs in the late 1980s. Source: Bhavna Dave

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@BevansAdvocate Economic history book(s) demonstrating the determinants of economic development in Japan and South Korea in the postwar period.

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Branko Milanovic about hypocrisy of the communist elite in the context of inequality.

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Prominent extract from Virginia Martin’s book about how nomadic Kazakhs of the Middle Horde tried to assure the neutrality of biy during the legal dispute between different clans.

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@tkassenova Thank you. For the History of Kazakhstan course, which I teach at Narikbaev University, your book has a valuable contribution.

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I have assigned chapter 3 of @tkassenova 's book to my students. It's a tragic and devastating story. Overall, Moscow knew about the precise harmful effects of radiation on local people from the 1950s and 1960s as the first studies were conducted 1/2

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Colonizer mindet of Alexander Pushkin
source: https://t.co/fD7VLyZYDc

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Jusan Bank divided the people living in Astana and Almaty into six economic classes and created data on who earns what and what % each class spends on basic living expenses from earned income.

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4/ Only Japan … by developing these attributes was able to compete in the international system. ... Acquire attributes of modernity or fall prey to an unsentimental international system."

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Stephen Kotkin
1/ “Modernization is not a natural process. You do not move from traditional to modern society in some sociological way. Modernism or modernity is about geopolitics. Someone shows up at your door uninvited. You did not want the French, British to show up...

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3/ You do not have much of a choice. You cannot say “we do not need you”. When they show up uninvited, either you end up as colony, semi-colony, or or develop attributes of modernity to fight off uninvited guests...