After the January events: Why Mongolia can’t and won’t produce broad mass movements
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One aspect that was missing in the coverage of what happened in Kazakhstan was its initial workers-led protests in the Western part of Kazakhstan, where large mining projects have been running since the mid 1990s. Without considering the working-class beginnings of the protests and focusing only on elite power struggles between Tokayev vs. Nazarbayev, as many have speculated, will give us only a partial answer to what has really happened. So here I will try to systematize the build-up to the protests with a longer perspective and I will do it only comparatively to my home country Mongolia - which should provide some useful insights. In the end, I will try to provide an analysis of Mongolia's failure to generate broad mass protests in a seemingly free political environment with standards of life much lower to that of Kazakhstan in all aspects.
After the January events: Why Mongolia can’t and won’t produce broad mass movements
After the January events: Why Mongolia can’t…
After the January events: Why Mongolia can’t and won’t produce broad mass movements
One aspect that was missing in the coverage of what happened in Kazakhstan was its initial workers-led protests in the Western part of Kazakhstan, where large mining projects have been running since the mid 1990s. Without considering the working-class beginnings of the protests and focusing only on elite power struggles between Tokayev vs. Nazarbayev, as many have speculated, will give us only a partial answer to what has really happened. So here I will try to systematize the build-up to the protests with a longer perspective and I will do it only comparatively to my home country Mongolia - which should provide some useful insights. In the end, I will try to provide an analysis of Mongolia's failure to generate broad mass protests in a seemingly free political environment with standards of life much lower to that of Kazakhstan in all aspects.