Tribal nation : the making of Soviet Turkmenistan / Adrienne Lynn Edgar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edgar, Adrienne Lynn, 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Turkmen--Ethnic identity.

Turkmen.

Nationalism--Turkmenistan.

Nationalism.

Turkmenistan--History--20th century.

Turkmenistan.

Turkmenistan--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (315 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Other Title:

Making of Soviet Turkmenistan

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2004]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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 1920's and 1930's 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.

Contents:

Tribe, class, and nation in Turkmenistan

Sources of identity in Turkmen

Assembling the nation: the creation of a Turkmen national republic

Ethnic preferences and ethnic conflict: the rise of a Turkmen national elite

Helpers, not nannies: Moscow and the Turkmen Communist Party

Dueling dialects: the creation of a Turkmen language

A nation divided: class struggle and the assault on 'tribalism'

Cotton and collectivization: rural resistance in Soviet Turkmenistan

Emancipation of the unveiled: Turkmen women under Soviet rule.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-285) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691117751

0691117756

9781400844296

1400844290

OCLC:

603323209