KAZAKHSTAN: NATIONAL IDENTITY IN THE CONTEXT OF INTEGRATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH RUSSIA
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Kazakhstan, Russia, national identity, unionist nationalismAbstract
The authors have traced down and analyzed the post-Soviet evolution of Kazakhstan’s national identity in the context of its relations with Russia. The process began in the Soviet-style “friendship of peoples” rhetoric that dominated the 1990s-2000s. In the 2010s, unionist nationalism of the previous decades was replaced with the national identity of Kazakhstan that demonstrated much stronger elements of Kazakh identity and much stronger reliance on national interests when dealing with Russia.
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