Interview with Mirlan Bektursunov: Building of “Nomadic Socialism”: State and Society in the Making of Soviet Kyrgyzstan

“In my home country, Kyrgyzstan, we often joke that “every taxi driver in Bishkek is potentially a professor of political science,” because whenever you get in a taxi, the driver ends up talking to you about local politics (or maybe you’re the one talking to the driver). Growing up in a politically contentious society, I naturally became interested in…”