Talk by Alun Thomas, Staffordshire University, on ‘The British and the Bolsheviks in Transcaspia: Nomad-State Relations in Comparative Perspective’

Cambridge Central Asia Forum invites you to a talk by

Alun Thomas, Staffordshire University, UK

on

‘The British and the Bolsheviks in Transcaspia: Nomad-State Relations in Comparative Perspective’

Date: 1 December 2023

Time: 11am-1pm

Venue: Room S3, Alison Richard Building and Zoom Registration: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYlfuqqpj8rHdGf7IdH4sg8Q5ueO9U1XSsN#/registration 

Biography: Alun Thomas is a historian and Area Studies scholar focusing primarily on the modern history and contemporary affairs of Central Asia and Russia. He completed my PhD in July 2015 and joined Staffordshire University in September 2017, having previously worked as Tutor or Lecturer at a number of UK HE institutions. Most of his research to date has focused on the revolutionary and early Soviet period in Central Asia, roughly 1917 to 1934. His first book, Nomads and Soviet Rule: Central Asia under Lenin and Stalin was awarded the Alexander Nove Prize for scholarly work of high quality in Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet studies by BASEES for the year 2018. You can find more information here.

Abstract:  The talk will engage with Alun's larger work-in-progress project which compares nomad-state relations across different modern state and imperial contexts. He will use the Transcaspia case study as a jumping-off-point to discuss Central Asia in the late Russian imperial/early Soviet period with points of comparison with neighbouring regions in the 19^th and 20^th centuries. 

Everyone is welcome.