FROM KRESY TO KAZAKHSTAN: THREE GENERATIONS OF POLISH MINORITY
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Date
2022
Authors
Maskevich, Anastassiya
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Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities
Abstract
This study aims to investigate the transformations of ethnic identity of three
generations of Kazakhstani Poles and their ancestors who were deported from Ukraine to
Kazakhstan in the 1930s. Deportation and Sovietization led to the impoverishment of ethnic
identity, therefore in independent Kazakhstan Poles had to look for new sources of
identification. One the base of preserved ethnicity Poles pursue two opposite trends: the
reconstruction of identity on the basis of preserved ethnicity or try to distance themselves
from it by assimilation. The base of the research is collections of memoirs and fieldwork data
in the village Kamenka in North Kazakhstan. Thesis uses the generational approach to show
how the boundaries of ethnic identity have been changed inside the community. Using this
approach, we emphasize the importance of historical memory. We cannot exclude the
historical narrative and use only recollections to save the objectivity of the presented facts,
recollections show the transmission of specific characteristics and their erasing from
generation to generation
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Type of access: Open Access, Kazakhstani Poles, Deportation, Sovietization, Kamenka, North Kazakhstan
Citation
Anastassiya Maskevich (2022). From Kresy to Kazakhstan: three generations of polish minority. Nazarbayev University, Nur-sultan, Kazakhstan