Dear all,
Please find readings for tomorrow's class on the e-course site. These are in Russian so hopefully will be relatively easy for you. Class will be focused on ethnic policies during the Russian Imperial period (and how they contributed to the ethno-national republics - and the borders based on that concept - that we have today). As such, please read:
pp. 38 - 43
pp. 57 - 61
Please feel free to read more if you like (all of the information is useful); but the 10 pages above should give you a basic overview of the categories and approaches used by Russian Imperial demographers / sociologists to define Central Asian ethnicities.
Best,
Meghan