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North to Astana: Nationalistic Motives for the Movement of the Kazakh(stani) Capital

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Richard L. Wolfel
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The collapse of the Soviet Union has accelerated the development of national identities in the newly independent states of this region. Additionally, the devolution of the USSR has created a “beached diaspora,” or a group of Russian speakers who have been isolated from the Russian state. This beached diaspora is an influential agent in the creation of a borderland conflict in independent Kazakhstan, in part because of the great distance separating the Russians of Kazakhstan and the original capital of the Kazakh state in Almaty, and in part because of the incongruity of the Kazakh and Russian national and state boundaries.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 30 , Issue 3 , September 2002 , pp. 485 - 506
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Copyright © 2002 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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