Projekt

The project investigates the adaptive strategies of social groups in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia during perestroika in a broader socio-cultural context and seeks to explain how the newly introduced ideological trends and cultural ideas impacted on social groups and personalities. The project follows a genuinely comparative approach and aims to distinguish the similarities, differences and specifics of patterns of social consolidation in the three societies. The study begins chronologically at the end of Brezhnev's era in 1982 and Tsedenbal's long rule in Mongolia in 1984 and continues up to the dissolution of the USSR and CMEA in 1991. The project is carried out by an international research team that includes senior and junior researchers from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia; the senior scholars supervise selected doctoral students, who write their PhD theses in the framework of the project at their home institutions.

• Dr. Irina Morozova

  Humboldt-Universität Berlin
  Philosophische Fakultät III
  Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften
  Zentralasien-Seminar
  Berlin
  

• Prof. Dr. Ingeborg Baldauf

  Humboldt-Universität Berlin
  Philosophische Fakultät III
  Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften
  Berlin
  

• Dr. Gulnara Aitpaeva

  Aigine Research Center
  Bishkek
  Kirgisistan
  

• Prof. Jigjidijn Boldbaatar, Ph. D.

  National University of Mongolia
  Sociology Department
  Chair for History
  MUIS hichelijn khoerdugaar bayar, room 263
  Ulaanbaatar
  Mongolei
  

• Dr. Tolganai Umbetalieva

  Central Asian Foundation for
  Developing Democracy
  Almaty
  Kasachstan