This article represents a revised version of a paper delivered at the international conference “Emerging Meso-Areas in the Former Socialist Countries: Histories Revived or Improvised?” January 28-30, 2004, Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. I am grateful to Kimitaka Matsuzato and Alexander Semyonov for comments and suggestions. Research for this article was also supported by a grant from the Estonian Ministry of Education and Science, nr. 0182573.
Editors of Ab Imperio would like to thank Steven Sabol, who undertook the job of guest editor and provided an introduction for the present forum on Kazakhstan. This forum is a continuation of a long term project of Ab Imperio “The State of Art in History Writing on Nation and Empire,” in the framework of which the journal has published fora on cases of Ukrainian, Moldavian, Tatar and other history writing. This project warrants a special mention this year because the current annual thematic program of Ab Imperio on historical memory grew out of reflection on those review fora. What has been initially conceived as a series of overviews of new history textbooks in post Soviet historiographies became a vibrant format for discussion of relationship between constructions of the past and post soviet identity and nationbuilding. Ab Imperio will continue “The State of Art in History Writing on Nation and Empire” project in hope that materials in the forthcoming fora will further expand our understanding the relationship between historiography and historical memory and illuminate the peculiar trajectories of post soviet identity formation.
This article is based on the paper presented at the International Symposium “Emerging Meso-Areas in the Former Socialist Countries” at the Slavic Research Center of the Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan (28-31 January 2004). Editors of AI express their gratitude to Professor Kimitaka Matsuzato for his permission to publish this article.
This article is based on the paper presented at the International Symposium “Emerging Meso-Areas in the Former Socialist Countries” at the Slavic Research Center of the Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan (28-31 January 2004). Editors of AI express their gratitude to Professor Kimitaka Matsuzato for his permission to publish this article.
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