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Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 540 g

Edgar

Tribal Nation


The Making of Soviet Turkmenistan

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 540 g

ISBN: 978-0-691-12799-6
Verlag: Princeton University Press

On October 27, 1991, the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic declared its independence from the Soviet Union. Hammer and sickle gave way to a flag, a national anthem, and new holidays. Seven decades earlier, Turkmenistan had been a stateless conglomeration of tribes. What brought about this remarkable transformation?Tribal Nation addresses this question by examining the Soviet effort in the 1920s and 1930s to create a modern, socialist nation in the Central Asian Republic of Turkmenistan. Adrienne Edgar argues that the recent focus on the Soviet state as a "maker of nations" overlooks another vital factor in Turkmen nationhood: the complex interaction between Soviet policies and indigenous notions of identity. In particular, the genealogical ideas that defined premodern Turkmen identity were reshaped by Soviet territorial and linguistic ideas of nationhood. The Soviet desire to construct socialist modernity in Turkmenistan conflicted with Moscow's policy of promoting nationhood, since many Turkmen viewed their "backward customs" as central to Turkmen identity.Tribal Nation is the first book in any Western language on Soviet Turkmenistan, the first to use both archival and indigenous-language sources to analyze Soviet nation-making in Central Asia, and among the few works to examine the Soviet multinational state from a non-Russian perspective. By investigating Soviet nation-making in one of the most poorly understood regions of the Soviet Union, it also sheds light on broader questions about nationalism and colonialism in the twentieth century.
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Autoren/Hrsg.

Edgar, Adrienne Lynn

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Weitere Infos & Material

LIST OF MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS ix

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi

NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION xv

INTRODUCTION Tribe, Class, and Nation in Turkmenistan 1

PART I: MAKING A NATION

CHAPTER ONE Sources of Identity among the Turkmen 17

CHAPTER TWO Assembling the Nation: The Creation of a Turkmen National Republic 41

CHAPTER THREE Ethnic Preferences and Ethnic Conflict: The Rise of a Turkmen National Elite 70

CHAPTER FOUR Helpers, Not Nannies: Moscow and the Turkmen Communist Party 100

CHAPTER FIVE Dueling Dialects: The Creation of a Turkmen Language 129

PART II: CONSTRUCTING SOCIALISM

CHAPTER SIX A Nation Divided: Class Struggle and the Assault on "Tribalism" 167

CHAPTER SEVEN Cotton and Collectivization: Rural Resistance in Soviet Turkmenistan 197

CHAPTER EIGHT Emancipation of the Unveiled: Turkmen Women under Soviet Rule 221

CONCLUSION From Soviet Republic to Independent Nation-State 261

GLOSSARY OF TERMS AND ABBREVIATIONS 267

BIBLIOGRAPHY 269

INDEX 287

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