For far too long, Western academia has ignored the legacies of the Russian Empire and colonisation.
Botakoz Kassymbekova
Botakoz Kassymbekova is an Assistant Professor of Modern History at the University of Basel, specialising in Stalinism and post-Stalinism. She is the ... author of Despite Cultures: Early Soviet Rule in Tajikistan (Pittsburgh University Press ) and editor of Stalinism and Central Asia (Central Asian Survey).