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Tribal nation : the making of Soviet Turkmenistan / Adrienne Lynn Edgar

American Council of Learned Societies

1st paperback printing

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2006, c2004

xvi, 296 p. S. ; 25 cm

Englisch

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; LIST OF MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION; INTRODUCTION: Tribe, Class, and Nation in Turkmenistan; PART I: MAKING A NATION; CHAPTER ONE: Sources of Identity among the Turkmen; CHAPTER TWO: Assembling the Nation: The Creation of a Turkmen National Republic; CHAPTER THREE: Ethnic Preferences and Ethnic Conflict: The Rise of a Turkmen National Elite; CHAPTER FOUR: Helpers, Not Nannies: Moscow and the Turkmen Communist Party; CHAPTER FIVE: Dueling Dialects: The Creation of a Turkmen Language

PART II: CONSTRUCTING SOCIALISMCHAPTER SIX: A Nation Divided: Class Struggle and the Assault on "Tribalism"; CHAPTER SEVEN: Cotton and Collectivization: Rural Resistance in Soviet Turkmenistan; CHAPTER EIGHT: Emancipation of the Unveiled: Turkmen Women under Soviet Rule; CONCLUSION From Soviet Republic to Independent Nation-State; GLOSSARY OF TERMS AND ABBREVIATIONS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Description based upon print version of record

Print version: Tribal Nation : The Making of Soviet Turkmenistan

0-691-12799-9 ; 978-0-691-12799-6

978-0-691-12799-6 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

University of Michigan, Scholarly Publishing Office

Electronic text and image data Mode of access: Intranet

EH 6190  | LB 48325  | LB 48329  | MG 84000  | MG 84030  | NK 4700  | NQ 5065      Ähnliche Literatur

DK938.85 .E35 2006

958.5/084

LOC-SH: Electronic books

Nationalism ; Turkmenistan ; Turkmen ; Ethnic identity ; Turkmenistan ; History ; 20th century ; Turkmenistan ; Social conditions ; Electronic books

Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-285) and index

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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 ano