Insights

"The Hungry Steppe," a new book by Sarah Cameron, has influenced the burgeoning public discourse on the famine of 1932–33 in Kazakhstan.

Cristopher Patvakanian ’20 set out to explore whether foreign investors behave differently if they belong to the diaspora of the country in which they are investing.

As the world marks the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, it would be much better not only for the history of Russia but also for the country’s future if Russian leaders were willing to permit—and even encourage—a more even-handed discussion of the Soviet Union’s role in the war.

Create resilient agreements to withstand crises and unexpected events.

Soviet containment of a smallpox epidemic in the Kazakh SSR in 1971 was shrouded in secrecy. As modern Central Asia grapples with COVID-19, it is a fitting moment to reveal this history.

A set of billboards in the Siberian city of Tomsk called on residents to endorse constitutional changes with an unsubtle allusion to Russia's past.

An American and a Soviet soldier embraced shortly after meeting at the Elbe River at Torgau, Germany, on April 25, 1945. Germany's surrender would come weeks later.

Russia has responded to the pandemic by drawing on some of its useful experience controlling tuberculosis, but suffers from the weaknesses of an imperfectly reformed health system.

What can Africa's experience with Belt and Road teach us about Central Asia? As a conversation between Cobus van Staden and Nargis Kassenova revealed: a lot.