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12 hours agoSilk Road splendour | Christopher Pincher | The Critic Magazinethecritic.co.uk - Christopher PincherThis article is taken from the November 2024 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issues …
Bitter Fate Of Alshyns In Kazakh State Based On Mongol-Oirat Ruling Traditions Amid Russian-Chinese Rivalry – Analysiseurasiareview.com - By the start of the 1990s, when the Kremlin began to rapidly lose authority and political influence in the ethnic (non-Russian) republics, the group of Western Kazakhs, who had previously been appointed to leadership positions in Kazakhstan and their protégés, was ousted from key posts. All the political heavyweights who had been part of that group were sent into retirement. This effectively meant returning to the situation where, according to N.Masanov, just the Senior and Middle Zhuz elites could compete for power against each other, and people from the Small Zhuz could not be seen as “legitimate contenders for power and, therefore, play an independent role in political life”. Later on, when the Kazakh ruling regime, which has represented a firm alliance of the Senior and Middle Zhuz elites all of the years since independence, faced the need to maintain the illusion of normalcy concerning its attitude towards the Junior Zhuz and to this end, began to promote other representatives of the West Kazakhs to high positions in the civil service instead of the above-mentioned ones and those who were said to be their ‘people’, it set to rely mainly on people from smaller tribes, or even clans of Alshyns (West Kazakhs), who were considered quite non-competitive in terms of the fight for power even at the regional level. It’s about people who, no matter how strong they were as politicians in person, a priori did not have the potential to form their own powerful and numerous political teams (clans) from among their fellow tribesmen and relatives.
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