The 550th anniversary of the foundation of Kazakhstan’s statehood in 2015an assessment from a neutral Central European country
Journal: Turkic Studies Journal
Year: 2021

A crucial aspect of the «politics of history» and «politics of memory» of all post-Soviet republics is the relationship to statehood. This article examines, from the perspective of a Central European observer, the commemorations held in Kazakhstan in 2015 on the occasion of the creation of the Kazakh Khanate, which is assumed to have taken place in 1465.Until recently, the history of the Kazakh Khanate was actually not an object of Eurasian research in the countries of Western Europe, although i