Turkey, Kemalism and the Soviet Union Problems of Modernization, Ideology and Interpretation /

• Main Author: Ter-Matevosyan, Vahram (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe,
• Subjects: Russia-History.; Europe, Eastern-History.; Historiography.; World politics.; Intellectual life-History.; Russian, Soviet, and East European History.; Memory Studies.; Political History.; Intellectual Studies.

This book examines the Kemalist ideology of Turkey from two perspectives. It discusses major problems in the existing interpretations of the topic and how the incorporation of Soviet perspectives enriches the historiography and our understanding of that ideology. To address these questions, the book...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Problems of Definition and Historiography of Kemalism. - (Trans)Formation of Kemalism, 1920s - 1930s
• Popularization of Kemalism: Intellectual, Contextual, and Popular Considerations
• Transformation of Kemalism's Hegemony in the Post-Atatürk Era, 1940s - 1950s
• Kemalism in the Second Republic, 1960s - 1970s
• Problems and Perspectives of Existing Interpretations of Kemalism
• Soviet Interpretations of Kemalism in the 1920s
• Geopolitics and Complexities of Soviet Interpretations
• Conclusion.