Raikhan Primbetova (she/her) is a Sophomore in the SFS, majoring in International Economics. With a strong passion for women’s rights and raising social awareness, she intends to study injustice women faced in Stalin’s period. In the past, Raikhan served as a Research Assistant at Georgetown’s Economics Department and Center for Regional and International Studies (CIRS).
Research Project: Women’s Fate in “ALZHIR”: A Concentration Camp with Injustice, Violence, and Hard Labor
During the Stalin’s Period, USSR’s Gulag concentration camps imprisoned approximately 20 million people in a fifteen year time span. One of such camps, ALZHIR, was a female-only camp for women related to the traitors to the Soviet Union, including wives, daughters, mothers, and sisters of male political prisoners. Their identity as female family members was enough to be sent to a concentration camp, where they experienced everyday hard labor, physical abuse, and psychological pressure. This project aims to raise this social problem and restore the silenced and censored topic of the last century.