Russian Perspectives on Islam documents the encounter and evolving relationship between the secular/Orthodox state and the Islamic regions, groups, individuals, and ideologies on the territory of the former Soviet Union and neighboring countries. This set of unique materials illuminates the strategies implemented by the Soviet and Russian state to establish authority and legitimacy among predominantly Muslim populations in Central Asia, the Northern Caucasus and Siberia and to enhance Moscow’s influence internationally with nearby Muslim countries, including Iran, Iraq, Pakistan and Turkey. The digital archive is designed to disseminate these documents to the widest possible scholarly community and general readership. Read more...
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Central Asian Memoirs of the Soviet Era

This project aims to significantly widen the spectrum of Central Asian voices in the historiography of Soviet Central Asia. While Central Asian…
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Nation Building as Identity-Based Conflict (Teaching Module)

This teaching module examines aspects of the National Delimitation Project in Soviet Central Asia in the 1920s and 1930s. Using...