Making Uzbekistan : : Nation, Empire, and Revolution in the Early USSR / / Adeeb Khalid.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Khalid, Adeeb,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2015]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (444 p.) :; 8 halftones, 4 maps

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Technical Note -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Intelligentsia and Reform in Tsarist Central Asia -- 2. The Moment of Opportunity -- 3. Nationalizing the Revolution -- 4. The Muslim Republic of Bukhara -- 5. The Long Road to Soviet Power -- 6. A Revolution of the Mind -- 7. Islam between Reform and Revolution -- 8. The Making of Uzbekistan -- 9. Tajik as a Residual Category -- 10. The Ideological Front -- 11. The Assault -- 12. Toward a Soviet Order -- Epilogue -- Glossary -- Bibliography of Primary Sources -- Index