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type: thesis
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creators_name: Jarvis, C
title: Competing ethno-historic claims to north Kazakhstan: The potential for future conflict
ispublished: unpub
note: Thesis digitised by ProQuest.
abstract: North Kazakhstan is a region considered a part of Russian historic territory due to its annexation by the Russian empire. Imperial settlement patterns led to mass ethnic Russian migration at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century and at the time of the last Soviet population census taken in 1989, they formed the largest part of the population of the Kazakh SSR. This ethnic Russian population lived overwhelmingly in the north of the republic in regions contiguous with the Russian Federation, creating a more or less ethnically bi-polar society upon independence. Secessionism or territorial integration with the Russian Federation has not, however, occurred within Kazakhstan despite competing ethno-historic claims to this territory and the presence of variables predisposing ethnic violence in this region of the country. This thesis shows that although Kazakh nationalizing processes are highly discriminatory and have angered the ethnic Russian community and caused massive out-migration, the community's political apathy coupled with a clampdown on opposition parties has marginalized them. Furthermore, as Kazakhstan is a willing participant in the CIS and strong supporter of inter-state cooperation with Russia, the Russian government has not intervened on the community's behalf to the extent that might have been expected, although security concerns over potential territorial instability along her southern border may explain this. This does not rule out future Russian intervention, however, as a number of variables, notably a rise in Islamic radicalism and Russian nationalism, mean that the political situation in Kazakhstan may not always remain calm and that a potential for conflict in the north of the republic remains ever present.
date: 2006-10-31
id_number: PQ ETD:593952
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
thesis_class: doctoral_open
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
full_text_status: public
pages: 214
institution: UCL (University College London)
department: SSEES - School of Slavonic and East European Studies
thesis_type: Masters
citation:        Jarvis, C;      (2006)    Competing ethno-historic claims to north Kazakhstan: The potential for future conflict.                   Masters thesis , UCL (University College London).     Green open access   
 
document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1446365/1/Jarvis_thesis.pdf