If you know of other oral histories, memoirs, or oral history projects about Central Asia, please send information citations via the contact form on this site.

Publications

Kemp, Marianne & Russell Zanca. (2008). “Writing the History of Collectivization in Uzbekistan: Oral Narratives.” Seattle, WA: National Council for Eurasian and East European Research.

Konstantin, Anatole. (2008). “A Red Boyhood: Growing Up Under Stalin.” Columbia: University of Missouri Press.

Shaiakhmetov, Mukhamet. (2007). “The Silent Steppe: the Memoir of a Kazakh Nomad under Stalin.” New York: Overlook/Rookery Press.

Tranum, Sam. (2009). “Life at the Edge of the Empire: Oral Histories of Soviet Kyrgyzstan.” Bishkek: Turar.

Other Resources & Projects

Dr. J. Otto Pohl, Associate Professor in the International & Comparative Politics Program at the American University of Central Asia, began collecting oral histories from Karachay deportees living in Kyrgyzstan in 2009.

The Central Asian Resource Center in Almaty, Kazakhstan sponsored a Central Asian Regional Seminar on Oral History Nov. 29 - Dec. 1, 2008 and may sponsor similar events in the future.

Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University (Bishkek), the University of Tsukuba (Japan), and the University of Tokyo started a collaborative oral history project in 2007 called “Living History of Central Asian People: The Case of Kyrgyzstan.”

Maltepe University (Turkey), Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University (Bishkek) and Kyrgyz State National University (Bishkek) ran a collaborative oral history project from 2007-2008 called “The Formation Process of the Kyrgyz National Identity During the 20th Century.”