Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia March 26, 2023

Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia March 26, 2023

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Think Tanks in Democratic Countries

Think Tanks in Democratic Countries

Think Tanks in Democratic Countries

Adel Bashqawi

March 20, 2023

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Haphazard Accusations:  Circassians Don’t Beg for a Certificate of Good Conduct from Russia

Haphazard Accusations: Circassians Don’t Beg for a Certificate of Good Conduct from Russia

Haphazard Accusations:

Circassians Don’t Beg for a Certificate of Good Conduct from Russia

Adel Bashqawi

March 15, 2023

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Russia’s Two-Headed Eagle Came Not from Byzantium but from Golden Horde and the Tatars, New Kazan Study of Muscovy Says

Friday, March 10, 2023

Russia’s Two-Headed Eagle Came Not from Byzantium but from Golden Horde and the Tatars, New Kazan Study of Muscovy Says

Paul Goble

Staunton, Mar. 8 – In 1975, the Kazakh writer Olzhas Suleimenov stirred up a firestorm of criticism in Moscow for his book Az i Ya, which discussed the Turkic origins of the Russian chronicle, The Tale of Igor’s Campaign. Now a new book by Kazan authors about Mongol and Turkic elements in Muscovy threatens to do something similar. Read more

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Cossackia: A Potentially Powerful Bulwark Against Russian Imperialism

Cossackia: A Potentially Powerful Bulwark Against Russian Imperialism

Cossackia: A Potentially Powerful Bulwark Against Russian Imperialism

March 14, 2023

(Source: The Telegraph)

Cossackia, the land east of Ukraine and north of the North Caucasus in the Russian Federation, is the traditional home of the three largest Cossack communities: the Don, Kuban and Terek hosts. As such, it has the potential to become a powerful bulwark against Russian imperialism, a defender of Ukraine and an ally of the West, its activists argue (T.me/Ertaul, March 11). But despite these very real prospects given the territory’s enormous natural wealth and geographic location astride the north-south and east-west trade routes Moscow has relied on to project power, Cossackia as a potential country remains more often a subject of dismissive laughter for the West than one that evokes serious attention. Three major reasons undergird this failure, and not one is justified.

First of all, many Western analysts remain not only Moscow-centric with regard to all communities outside the Russian capital but also prisoners of Hollywood and Soviet propaganda, in particular about the Cossacks. This propaganda blames the Cossacks for pogroms others ordered them to take part in and fails to pay much attention to the Soviet genocide of the Cossacks (Window On Eurasia, January 29, 2020January 28). Second, those who know more about the Cossacks doubt that any Cossack state is possible due to the enormous diversity of the Cossack community and its geographic dispersion. As a result, they refuse to recognize the three largest hosts as predominant. And third, the West has not recognized that, in Putin’s Russia, two very different groups of people are referred to as Cossacks and that, following what happens to one group, mentions nothing about how that affects the other. Read more

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Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia March 12, 2023

Paul Goble’s 50 Windows on Eurasia March 12, 2023

Note from compiler: This week, I begin four weeks of daily radiation treatment for my second kind of cancer. Preparations for that have already slowed my production of Windows, and this new round of treatment is likely to slow that down still further. I will do what I can but ask for your understanding. Thanks. Paul Goble

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The Communal Land Tenure of the Don Cossacks. Origins and Evolution till 1835

The Communal Land Tenure of the Don Cossacks. Origins and Evolution till 1835

Dissertationsprojekt von Artur Hilgenberg

Erstbetreuer: Prof. Dr. Guido Hausmann

Zweitbetreuer: Prof. Dr. Julia Herzberg

March 2, 2023

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