Islam in the Post-Soviet Space
Author: Olga Breininger-Umetayeva, Ph.D. candidate in Slavic and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. Her research interests include post-Soviet culture and geopolitics, with a special focus on Islam, nation-building, and energy politics. Olga is the author of the novel ‘There Was No Adderall in the Soviet Union’.
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