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Central AsiaConstant Wonder • Season 2022, Episode 772, Segment 2

Dec 4, 2020 • 24m

Guest: Shoshana Keller, Professor of History at Hamilton College and author of "Russia and Central Asia: Coexistence, Conquest, Convergence" Stalin ordered the nomadic peoples of Central Asia to settle down and become members of Soviet states, and the five "-stans" are still reeling from that dramatic change today. But in some ways, residents have come to relish their modern identities.

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