Socialism mediated : the making of Soviet culture in Central Asia / Claire Roosien.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roosien, Claire, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soviet Union--Cultural policy.

Soviet Union.

Uzbekistan--History--1917-1991.

Uzbekistan.

Uzbekistan--Civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations

illustration

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2026]

Summary:

When the Bolsheviks took over in Central Asia, they inherited a region that the Russian Empire had colonized less than 50 years before. Integrated into the Russian Empire & predominantly Muslim, the territories were a far cry from the societies where Marxism-Leninism was forged. Despite their foothold, Soviet authorities represented themselves as acting according to the will of Central Asia's people. That representation became increasingly urgent as the state wielded unprecedented violence to enact its policies. To bridge the gap between Central Asia's masses and the interventionist state agenda many of them perceived as foreign, the Soviet Party-state employed a cohort of Central Asian activists and cultural producers who made common cause with the Bolsheviks. They worked to reorganize social institutions, remake musical form, reshape literary life, and recreate collective imaginaries in conditions of extreme uncertainty and rampant violence.

Contents:

Cover

Socialism Mediated : The Making of Soviet Culture in Central Asia

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Figures, Tables, and Charts

Note on Transliteration

Acknowledgments

Plates

Preface

Introduction

Mediators for the Age of Mass Society

Difference and the Soviet Public

Nation, Empire, and the Soviet Public

Gender and the Soviet Public

Class and the Soviet Public

Organizing the Public

Imagining the Public

1: Tea

Trans-Eurasian Teahouse Culture

Soviet Orientalists and the "Teahouse Text".

The Red Teahouse and the State Public

The "Red" and the "Black"

Red Teahouse Media Publics

Consumption at Red Teahouses

Gender and the Red Teahouse Public

Conclusion

2: Pens

The Writers' Preschool

Tashkent-Bound

Going Pro

Abdulla Qahhor and the Jadid Public Sphere

Husayn Shams and the Imagined Proletariat

Oydin and the Women's Public

Reaching the Masses

Purges and the Pedagogies of Publicity

3: Novels

Socialist Realism and the Soviet Novel in Uzbekistan

Qahhor's Mirage : The Phantom Public.

Ayni's Slaves

Shams's The Law

4: Songs

The "Music of the Past"

National Songs for the National Public

Popular and Professional

Jadid Music, Soviet Music

Music and the Mass Public

Repertoire for the "Masses"

Making "Folk" Music Mass Music

5: Silks and Velvets

From the Hujum Aesthetic to the Aesthetic of Socialist Realism

Unveiling as Getting Dressed

Clothing and Politics in Central Asia

The Stakhanovite's Silk Dress

6: Celebrity

Tojixon: Person and Persona

Tojixon the Star.

Tojixon the Representative

Tojixon the Overseer

The Invisible Tojixon

Endnotes

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Bibliography

Archives

Periodicals

Reference Works

Selected Published Primary Sources

Selected Secondary Sources

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (Oxford Academic, viewed on August 14, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version : Roosien, Claire,. Socialism mediated.

ISBN:

9780198971153

019897115X

0198971176

9780198971177

OCLC:

1586812640

Publisher Number:

CIPO000381370

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