Social and Cultural Change in Central Asia (eBook, ePUB)

The Soviet Legacy
Redaktion: Akyildiz, Sevket; Carlson, Richard

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on Soviet culture and its social ramifications both during the Soviet period and in the post-Soviet era, this book addresses important themes associated with Sovietisation and socialisation in the Central Asian states of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134495207
• Artikelnr.: 39906384

Autorenporträt

Sevket Akyildiz is Lecturer at Arcadia University, UK and is a post-doctoral research associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK. Richard Carlson currently works as an energy researcher and analyst, focusing on European, Turkish and Caspian energy issues. He is a founding member of the Eurasia Studies Society (TESS GB-Europe) and editor of the website.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Soviet cultural legacy Part 1: Central Asia 1924-1991:
Implementing a Soviet culture and society 1. 'Learn, learn, learn!' Soviet
style in Uzbekistan: Implementation and planning 2. The emancipation of
women in Soviet Central Asia from 1917 to 1940: Strategies, successes, and
failures 3. The Soviet construction of Kazakh batyrs 4. The concept of
traditional music in Central Asia: From the revolution to independence 5.
Political, economic and historical foundations of Central Asian cinema 6.
Socialist realism: Cooperation and challenge among non-Russian Central
Asian writers 7. The Second World War in Central Asia: Events, identity,
and memory 8. Becoming Soviet in Turkmenistan: The unseen influence of the
'special settlers' Part 2: The challenges of independence 9. The failure of
liberal democratisation in Kazakhstan: The role of international investment
and civil society in impending political reform 10. Social networking
practices: Continuity or rupture with the Soviet past? 11. National
identity formation in post-Soviet Central Asia: The Soviet legacy,
primordialism, and patterns of ideological development since 1991 12.
Deconstructing communal violence during the civil war in Tajikistan: The
case of the Pamiris 13. The relics of 1991: Memories and phenomenology of
the post-Soviet generation