Language politics and nationalism in post-soviet Kazakhstan : an analysis

• Main Author: Zhang, Yu
• Other Authors: Wu Fengshi
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/69787
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In modern times, the key to nation-building in a multi-ethnic country lies in the formation of a national identity, which often cannot circumvent the task of constructing a common language. After a quarter of century of independence, Kazakhstan, the largest and economically strongest former Soviet r...