Yakov Aleksandrovich Falkov,
PhD, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
To Study the Contribution of Kazakhstanis to the Anti-Nazi Underground and Partisan Struggle in Europe: An Attempt to Learn from the Experience of the International Historical Project of the University of Oxford
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2021-3-2
The article, based on the author’s personal experience, examines the research model tested by the University of Oxford (England), in 2016–2019, for conducting an international historical study of the international and transnational character of the European anti-fascist and anti-Nazi resistance (1936–1948). For the first time in the historiography of WWII, a group of European, American and Israeli researchers was able to show how tens of thousands of anti-Nazi resisters across Europe fought “transnationally”, travelling to join resistance networks far from their homes, and by doing this greatly affected the course and outcomes of the conflict. The article’s author proposes possible ways of utilizing Oxford research model for assessing the contribution of Kazakhstanis and other people of Central Asia to the underground and partisan struggle against the Nazi occupation of Europe.
Publishing: 28/06/2021
The article has been received by the editor on 05.04.2021
How to cite: Falkov Ya.A. To Study the Contribution of Kazakhstanis to the Anti-Nazi Underground and Partisan Struggle in Europe: An Attempt to Learn from the Experience of the International Historical Project of the University of Oxford // Historical Courier, 2021, No. 3 (17), pp. 16–24. [Available online:] http://istkurier.ru/data/2021/ISTKURIER-2021-3-02.pdf
Links: Issue 3 2021
Keywords: World War II; Europe; Central Asia; German-fascist occupation; resistance; internationalism; transnationalism; transnational approach; research model