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oapen-20.500.12657-881872024-03-28T14:02:49Z Making Uzbekistan Khalid, Adeeb Uzbekistan, USSR, imperial rule, colonialism, mass media, nationalism, state building thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian history In Making Uzbekistan, Adeeb Khalid chronicles the tumultuous history of Central Asia in the age of the Russian revolution. He explores the complex interaction between Uzbek intellectuals, local Bolsheviks, and Moscow to sketch out the flux of the situation in early-Soviet Central Asia. His focus on the Uzbek intelligentsia allows him to recast our understanding of Soviet nationalities policies. Uzbekistan, he argues, was not a creation of Soviet policies, but a project of the Muslim intelligentsia that emerged in the Soviet context through the interstices of the complex politics of the period. Making Uzbekistan introduces key texts from this period and argues that what the decade witnessed was nothing short of a cultural revolution. 2024-03-05T11:18:09Z 2024-03-05T11:18:09Z 2016 book 9781501701344 9781501735851 9780801454097 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/88187 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781501701351.pdf http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801454097/making-uzbekistan Cornell University Press 06a447d4-1d09-460f-8b1d-3b4b09d64407 9781501701344 9781501735851 9780801454097 438 open access
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In Making Uzbekistan, Adeeb Khalid chronicles the tumultuous history of Central Asia in the age of the Russian revolution. He explores the complex interaction between Uzbek intellectuals, local Bolsheviks, and Moscow to sketch out the flux of the situation in early-Soviet Central Asia. His focus on the Uzbek intelligentsia allows him to recast our understanding of Soviet nationalities policies. Uzbekistan, he argues, was not a creation of Soviet policies, but a project of the Muslim intelligentsia that emerged in the Soviet context through the interstices of the complex politics of the period. Making Uzbekistan introduces key texts from this period and argues that what the decade witnessed was nothing short of a cultural revolution.
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