Collectivization and social engineering : : Soviet administration and the Jews of Uzbekistan, 1917-1939 / / by Zeev Levin.

Zeev Levin seeks to provide a comprehensive picture of government efforts to socialize the Jewish masses in Uzbekistan, a process in which the central Soviet government took part, together with the local, republican and regional administrations and Soviet Jewish activists. This research presents a c...

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Superior document:Eurasian Studies Library, Volume 5
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, 2015.
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Eurasian studies library ; Volume 5.
Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • 1 “The Wastelands”: The Jews of Central Asia
  • 2 “We’ll Change Henceforth the Old Tradition”: The Bolshevik Revolution in Central Asia
  • 3 “Workers of the World Unite!”: Central Asia and the Nationalities Question
  • 4 The Hungry Steppe – The Plans
  • 5 The Hungry Steppe (Mirzo-Chul): The Implementation
  • 6 Not Only in the Steppes: Building an Urban Proletariat
  • 7 Reclaiming the Cultural Wastelands
  • End of an Era, and an Epilogue
  • Bibliography
  • Index.