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Agriculture in Central Asia
Agriculture in the Soviet Union
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Backwardness
Basmachi movement
Bolsheviks
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Central Asia
Central Committee
Cold War
Colonialism
Communal apartment
Communism
Communism in Russia
Comrade
Cousin marriage in the Middle East
Cultural backwardness
Dual power
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Ernest Gellner
Great Leap Forward
Hammer and sickle
Imperialism
Indigenization
Jadid
Kazakhs
Khiva
Kolkhoz
Kulak
Language policy
Left Socialist Revolutionaries
Leftist errors (Yugoslavia)
Leninism
Marxism and the National Question
Marxism-Leninism
Mensheviks
Nationality
New Army
New Economic Policy
New Laws
Old Bolshevik
Oppression
Pan-Turkism
Peasant
Political party
Primitive communism
Propaganda in the Soviet Union
Punitive expedition
Republics of the Soviet Union
Revolution
Russian Empire
Russian language
Russians
Soviet Empire
Soviet of Nationalities
Soviet Union
Sovietization
Special Organization (Ottoman Empire)
Superiority (short story)
Tajiks
The woman question
Trotskyism
Turkic peoples
Turkmen alphabet
Turkmen language
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Uzbeks
War
White movement
Yomut
Zhenotdel
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- ISBN 9780691127996
- Weight: 482g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 25 Sep 2006
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 another vital factor in Turkmen nationhood: the complex interaction between Soviet policies and indigenous notions of identity. In particular, the genealogical ideas that defined premodern Turkmen identity were reshaped by Soviet territorial and linguistic ideas of nationhood. The Soviet desire to construct socialist modernity in Turkmenistan conflicted with Moscow's policy of promoting nationhood, since many Turkmen viewed their "backward customs" as central to Turkmen identity.
Tribal Nation is the first book in any Western language on Soviet Turkmenistan, the first to use both archival and indigenous-language sources to analyze Soviet nation-making in Central Asia, and among the few works to examine the Soviet multinational state from a non-Russian perspective. By investigating Soviet nation-making in one of the most poorly understood regions of the Soviet Union, it also sheds light on broader questions about nationalism and colonialism in the twentieth century.
Adrienne Lynn Edgar is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She was formerly an editor of "World Policy Journal".
