Socio-political evolution of Central Asian clans

Abstract

The article is devoted to the clan organization of the post-Soviet countries of Central Asia. Recently, scientific interest in the stated topic has decreased somewhat, due to the lack of implementation of traditional institutions of Eastern societies and the decline in the influence of the liberal mainstream on the socio-political process in post-Soviet Asia, which, in turn, significantly reduced the thoroughness of criticism of the "non-Western path" of development. The author's perspective on the problem is focused on the identification of traditional institutions, their actualization in the modern political process and variants of their socio-political evolution. The authors offer an expanded understanding of the essence of a clan organization that distributes consolidating loyalty directions both horizontally within blood-related communities and vertically, reproducing the hierarchy of connections from the elite top to the rank-and-file members of associations. The authors consider the growth of social movement, self-awareness and public disillusionment with the attempt to reproduce the Western model of social development to be the main factors that actualize the clan organization in the socio-political process of post-Soviet Asian countries. The dynamically developing socio-political reality of the Asian newly independent States actualizes multidirectional vectors of social integration.