Kazakhstan: A Quest for Statehood : a Historical and Contemporary Overview

by Charles van der Leeuw

This modest work’s overall theme is to investigate how the formation of the state of Kazakhstan fits into current friction between two notions: one of the nation-state and one of “voluntary adherence” to any state within framework of the process of globalization. However, in order to provide clarity in particular to those readers who get to read about Kazakhstan’s history for first time, the book’s overall order kept chronological, with specific details on social, spiritual, economic and political peculiarities embedded in the various episodes of Kazakhstan’s turbulent, sometimes vague but always intriguing history.