Language:
English
Pages:
vii, 476 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Keywords:
Zentral-Asien Usbekistan
;
Kolonie, russisch
;
Russland
;
Sowjet-Union
;
Russe
;
Kolonialismus
;
Kolonisierung
;
Kolonialgeschichte
;
Besiedlungsgeschichte
;
Soziale Organisation
;
Beziehungen Christentum-Islam
;
Beziehungen, interethnische
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Taschkent 〈Stadt, Usbekistan〉
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Hochschulschrift
Abstract:
Russian settlers came by the thousands to populate a new "Russian section" of Tashkent following the tsarist conquest of the city in 1865. One thousand miles from European Russia, amid a predominantly Muslim population, and confronted with desert surroundings, these Russians struggled to create their new community. The exercise of colonial power and visions of modernity coexisted and clashed as settlers advanced Tashkent as an example of the dominance and progress of Europe, and Russia, in the "Age of Empire." Russians nonetheless recognized their ambiguous position, between Europe and Asia, in colonial Tashkent. This dissertation in fact argues that Russian Tashkent provides a particularly salient example of the tensions of colonial rule, due both to Russia's own consciousness of its marginal status within Europe as well as the advanced, virtually "modern" nature of the local Muslim population, who had established effective networks of trade and science before the capture of Tashkent by tsarist forces. Continuing Muslim participation in commerce and industry in colonial Tashkent evoked fears among the settlers that they would eventually be fully dependent on the colonized population. Struggles to enforce and to exploit the advantages of colonial rule, this study argues, fractured the settler community. Tsarist colonial authorities promoted the superiority of elite Russian males as vanguards of European modernity and the unique beneficiaries of their status as colonizers. The settler poor, workers, women, and European, non-Russian nationalities, as well as local Muslims, pursued strategies of accommodation and resistance that subverted hierarchies in colonial Tashkent. Russian workers and Muslim intellectuals both presented alternate visions of modernity to legitimize and guide their attempts to rule Tashkent following the collapse of the tsarist regime in 1917. Russians defended their identity as members of a distinct colonial community. Even as they asserted their links to Europe and Russia, settlers consistently resisted central dictates. Colonial residents across the social scale argued that their special role as emissaries of European civilization had engendered a unique society and culture in the city. Settler autonomy threatened to undermine the ideals of the soviet regime in the early 1920s, forcing a crackdown from the metropole.
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction -- Chapter 1: Representations of Power, Conceptions of Community: The Construction of a Russian Tashkent, 1865-1889 -- Chapter 2: Breaking Down Boundaries: The Colonial Encounter and the "Cholera Riot" of 1892 -- Chapter 3: The Ambivalence and Importance of Identity in Russian Tashkent, 1865-1892 -- Chapter 4: Class, Culture, and the Revolution of 1905 -- Chapter 5: Whither Power, Whither Progress? Crises, War, and Society in Colonial Tashkent, 1907-1916 -- Chapter 6: The Politics of Provisions in Revolutionary Tashkent, 1917-1923 -- Conclusion -- Figures -- Bibliography
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 458-473; Photocopy by Ann Arbor, MI : UMI
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Dissertation, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA, 2000
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