Grigol Ubiria

Soviet Nation-Building in Central Asia

The Making of the Kazakh and Uzbek Nations

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The demise of the Soviet Union in 1991 resulted in new state-led nation-building projects in Central Asia. The emergence of independent republics spawned a renewed Western scholarly interest in the region's nationality issues. Presenting a detailed study, this book examines the state-led nation-building projects in the Soviet republics of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Exploring the degree, forms and ways of the Soviet state involvement in creating Kazakh and Uzbek nations, this book places the discussion within the theoretical literature on nationalism. The author argues that both Kazakh and Uzbek nations are artificial constructs of Moscow-based Soviet policy-makers of the 1920s and 1930s. This book challenges existing arguments in current scholarship by bringing some new and alternative insights into the role of indigenous Central Asian and Soviet officials in these nation-building projects. It goes on to critically examine post-Soviet official Kazakh and Uzbek historiographies, according to which Kazakh and Uzbek peoples had developed national collective identities and loyalties long before the Soviet era. This book will be a useful contribution to Central Asian History and Politics, as well as studies of Nationalism and Soviet Politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 439g
• ISBN-13: 9781138583801
• ISBN-10: 1138583804
• Artikelnr.: 52714680

Autorenporträt

Grigol Ubiria is a Research Associate at the Australian National University's Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies (the Middle East & Central Asia), Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: Theory of Nationalism 1. Theorizing Modern
Nationalism: General Paradigms and Concepts Part 2: Historical Framework
2. Central Asia Before the Russian Annexation: Ethno-Social Context 3.
Tsarist Central Asia 4. Central Asia from the February Revolution until the
Russian-Bolshevik Reoccupation Part 3: From Lenin to Gorbachev 5. The
Formation of the Soviet Union: The Soviet Federal System 6. The
National-Territorial Delimitation of Central Asia, 1924-36 7. Soviet Census
and Passport Policies: Institutionalizing Kazakh and Uzbek National
Identities 8. The Korenizatsiia Campaign and Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan 9.
Soviet Policy towards Islam in Central Asia 10. Soviet Emancipation of
Kazakh and Uzbek Women: Conflicting Historical Interpretations 11. Economic
Development of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan under Soviet Rule 12. Soviet
Population Transfers: Changing Ethnolinguistic and Cultural Landscapes of
Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan 13. Soviet Construction of Kazakh and Uzbek
National Histories 14. The Evolution of the Soviet Nationality Doctrine and
Policies, 1917-91: Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan