Nomads, warriors and bureaucrats: nation-building and film in post-Soviet Kazakhstan
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عنوان ژورنال: Nationalities Papers
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0090-5992,1465-3923
DOI: 10.1080/00905992.2013.870986