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Central Asia as a part of the Russian Empire

Morrison, Alexander Stephen (2011)

An excessively lengthy review article analysing the collectively-authored volume 'Tsentral'naya Aziya v Sostave Rossiiskoi Imperii', published by 'Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie' in 2007
Challenges in teaching and curriculum development for 'History of Kazakhstan' at Nazarbayev University

Alexander Stephen, Morrison (2014)

This is the text on which I based a talk in Russian given at the plenary session of a conference held at the Eurasian National University on the 22nd November 2014. It was published in the conference proceedings: E.B. ...
Metropole, Colony, and Imperial Citizenship in the Russian Empire

Morrison, Alexander Stephen (2012)

This article reviews recent literature on legal and civic ideas of citizenship within the Russian empire, arguing that much of it fails to take into account the many legal and administrative inequalities which existed ...
Peasant settlers and the ‘civilizing mission’ in Russian Turkestan, 1865-1917

Morrison, Alexander Stephen (2015)

This article provides an introduction to one of the lesser-known examples of European settler colonialism, the settlement of European (mainly Russian and Ukrainian) peasants in Southern Central Asia (Turkestan) in the late ...
Russia, Khoqand, and the search for a "Natural" Frontier, 1863–1865

Morrison, Alexander Stephen (2014)

Abstract Russian expansion into Central Asia in the nineteenth century is usually seen either as the product of lobbying by big capitalist interests in Moscow or as a wholly unplanned process driven by “men on the spot” ...
“Sowing the Seed of National Strife in This Alien Region”: The Pahlen Report and Pereselenie in Turkestan, 1908–1910

Morrison, Alexander Stephen (2012)

This article examines the institutional background to the decision to send Senator Count K. K. Pahlen's Commission of Inspection to Turkestan in 1908. It concentrates on the divisive issue of 'pereselenie', or peasant ...
Sufism, Panislamism and Information Panic: Nil Sergeevich Lykoshin and the aftermath of the Andijan Uprising

Morrison, Alexander Stephen (2012)

This article explores a hitherto unknown incident in the region between Aulie-Ata and Chimkent in the eighteen months following the Andijan Uprising against Russian rule in Central Asia in 1898, in which the late Tsarist ...
Teaching the Islamic History of the Qazaqs in Kazakhstan

Morrison, Alexander Stephen (2014)

This paper was the basis for a talk I gave in Russian at a conference for the jubilee of Ashirbek Muminov at the Eurasian National University on the 20th November 2014. It was published in the conference proceedings: Yu. ...
The Legendary Biographies of Nāṣir-i Khusraw: Memory and Textualization in Early Modern Persian Ismāʿīlism

Beben, Daniel (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2015)

This dissertation examines the legendary biographical traditions concerning the eleventh-century Ismāʿīlī philosopher and missionary Nāṣir-i Khusraw and their significance for the history of the Badakhshān region of Central ...