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Category: Kalmyk

Famines and Zhuts

September 30, 2014 Michael Hancock-Parmer Leave a comment

On a handful of occasions, I have encountered an interesting phenomenon in conversation with some citizens of the Republic of…

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Posted in: 18th Century, 20th Century, Comparative History, Eurasia, Famine, Kalmyk, Kazakh SSR, Kazakhstan, Michael's Blog, Mongols, Oirat, Sedentarization, Soviet History, Zunghar

Who was Alash Khan?

August 29, 2014 Michael Hancock-Parmer Leave a comment

“The legend of Alash and his three sons may be dismissed as fiction… such stories seem clearly to have been…

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Posted in: 15th Century, Historiography, History, Kalmyk, Kazakh, Michael's Blog, Oirat, Oral History, Popular History, Zunghar

Translation: Tynyshpaev, “Ak-taban-shubryndy”

August 18, 2014 Michael Hancock-Parmer Leave a comment

This translation requires an admission of guilt. I am ashamed that I have left this translation only half-completed on other…

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Posted in: 18th Century, 20th Century, Kalmyk, Kazakh, Kazakh SSR, Kazakhstan, Michael's Blog, Military History, Nationalism, Nomadism, Soviet History, Tynyshpaev

Translation: Qudaiberdiev, “The Origins of the Qazaqs” (excerpts)

August 4, 2014 Michael Hancock-Parmer Leave a comment

This is a translation of a longer work by Qudaiberdiev called “Genealogy of the Turks, Qazaqs, Khans.” In one section,…

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Posted in: 18th Century, 20th Century, Kalmyk, Kazakh, Kazakh SSR, Kazakhstan, Michael's Blog, Oral History, Shahkarim, Translation, Zunghar

The Other Ablai

July 6, 2014 Michael Hancock-Parmer Leave a comment

I write these posts to collect some stray thoughts that likely will have very little to do with my doctoral…

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Posted in: 18th Century, Kalmyk, Kazakh, Michael's Blog, Military History, Oirat, Research, Zunghar

Kazakh History in the 1940s

November 3, 2012 Michael Hancock-Parmer Leave a comment

I recently requested Istoriia Kazakhskoi SSR s drevneishikh vremen do nashikh dnei [History of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic from…

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Posted in: 18th Century, Kalmyk, Kazakh, Michael's Blog, Soviet History, Tynyshpaev
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