ISBN:
0691127999
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9780691127996
Language:
English
Pages:
xvi, 296 p. S.
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25 cm
Edition:
1st paperback printing
Edition:
University of Michigan, Scholarly Publishing Office Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text Electronic text and image data Mode of access: Intranet
Series Statement:
ACLS Humanities E-Book
Parallel Title:
Print version Tribal Nation : The Making of Soviet Turkmenistan
DDC:
958.5/084
Keywords:
Nationalism ; Turkmenistan
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Turkmen ; Ethnic identity
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Turkmenistan ; History ; 20th century
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Turkmenistan ; Social conditions
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Electronic books
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Abstract:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-285) and index
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Electronic text and image data Mode of access: Intranet
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