The Newsletter 70 Spring 2015

Evidence & history in archival documents: civil war in Semirech'ye

Ablet Kamalov

In an era of a global cyberspace, many concepts of social sciences acquire new dimensions, which is also true for the concept of the archive. Yet, irrespective of these new dimensions, the core question in the process of generating new knowledge still concerns the relationship between evidence and history, between data and what really happened.