Identity-building in Kazakhstan

In: Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Studia Europaea, Band 65, Heft 2, S. 327-358

Abstract

"As a young nation that came into existence following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Republic of Kazakhstan undergoes a gradual transformation within its demographics. The issue of national identity within what was once an important and well-integrated part of the USSR continues to draw the involvement of its administrative apparatus that has to find the equilibrium between, on one hand, maintaining national integrity through various mechanisms and, on the other, managing the level of external and internal factors that may lead to the fate of its fellow Central-Asian republics.

Keywords: nationalism, populism, Central Asia, statehood, post-Soviet identity"