Edgar Tribal Nation

The Making of Soviet Turkmenistan
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4429-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Edgar, Adrienne Lynn

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Nationalismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Adrienne Lynn Edgar is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She was formerly an editor of World Policy Journal.