From 1925, when the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic was declared a part of the Soviet Union, one photographer was able to capture the “radical social surgery” enacted by the Bolsheviks that forever ...

Central Asia has been a bellwether of the Sino-Russian relationship. Russia accounts for almost all of Kazakhstan’s imported ...

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Uzbekistan became independent. Eager to promote Uzbek culture, its new government changed the names of some of these stations. There's no longer a Lenin ...

Uzbekistan: Return of Soviet hero’s monument revives history debates As in other parts of the former Soviet Union, Uzbekistan has a complicated relationship with the legacy of the war against Nazi ...

For decades, the Soviets favored Uzbekistan as a site of industrial-scale cotton cultivation, implementing a system in which farmers were effectively indentured to the government. Following the Soviet ...

Between 1925 and 1949, photographer Max Penson documented life in Soviet Uzbekistan. 2 Max Penson sits for a self portrait. The photographer was born in what is today Belarus in 1893, but fled ...

Russian, of course, was the state language of the Soviet Union. But after Uzbekistan gained independence in 1991, Karimov deemphasized the instruction of Russian in schools -- largely out of a desire ...

Pre-Soviet Uzbekistan Captured In Perfect Color Before becoming famous for photographing tsarist Russia, Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky captured stunning photos of life in Central Asia more than a century ...

When observing Amir Timur’s statue, one can see the Soviet modernist architecture in the periphery. This came in the form of the Soviet luxury hotel — Hotel Uzbekistan. Such symbolic contradictions ...

Step after tentative step, Uzbekistan—one of the world’s most closed societies—is beginning to open up. The most-populous post-Soviet nation in Central Asia has freed high-profile political ...

Uzbekistan’s Gen Z is tired of the Russian language’s privileged status in the country. According to government statistics, approximately 2.1 percent of the country’s 37.5 million people are ...