A few weeks ago, we were assigned to read Anuar Duisenbinov’s Testimonies about Tea. It’s a stunning collection of memories and stories about tea, which Duisenbinov sewed together into a quilt that…
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Stalinism on the Steppe: A Film Review of “A Gift to Stalin”
There’s something powerful about film as a story-telling medium. Even though we’ve read books and articles about Kazakhstan under Stalinism, spoken to our host families, and even visited the site of an…
