Russian Orientalism

Russian Orientalism
Author: David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2010-04-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300162898

Here, the author examines Russian thinking about the Orient before the Revolution of 1917. He argues that the Russian Empire's bi-continental geography and the complicated nature of its encounter with Asia have all resulted in a variegated understanding of the East among its people.

Petrushka

Petrushka
Author: Gillian Lenton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 85
Release: 1998
Genre: Petrouchka (Choreographic work : Fokine)
ISBN: 9780946483983

Ferghana Valley

Ferghana Valley
Author: S. Frederick Starr
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 531
Release: 2014-12-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317470656

The Ferghana Valley can reasonably be said to lie in the heart of Central Asia. As such, the Valley has made an inordinate contribution to the history and culture of the region as a whole, as well as significantly affecting the economic, political and religious spheres. This book looks at the region over time, from its early history to the present. It embraces not just the obvious fields of politics, economics and religion, but also ethnography, sociology and culture, and includes the insights of leading scholars from all three Ferghana countries. The book discusses various questions of identity relating to the region, showing how the identity of the Ferghana Valley relates to the emerging national identities of the three post-colonial states that are still gradually emerging from the demise of the Soviet Union, as well as how an understanding of the Ferghana Valley is key to understanding Central Asia itself.

Making Uzbekistan

Making Uzbekistan
Author: Adeeb Khalid
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 438
Release: 2015-11-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1501701355

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.

Crossword Solver

Crossword Solver
Author: Anne Stibbs
Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Limited
Total Pages: 423
Release: 2000
Genre: Games
ISBN: 9780747550754

An aid to solving crosswords. It contains over 100,000 potential solutions, including plurals, comparative and superlative adjectives, and inflections of verbs. The list extends to first names, place names and technical terms, euphemisms and compound expressions, as well as abbreviations.

Old Church Slavonic Grammar

Old Church Slavonic Grammar
Author: Horace G. Lunt
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2010-12-14
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110876884

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Soviet Nation-Building in Central Asia

Soviet Nation-Building in Central Asia
Author: Grigol Ubiria
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2015-09-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317504348

The demise of the Soviet Union in 1991 resulted in new state-led nation-building projects in Central Asia. The emergence of independent republics spawned a renewed Western scholarly interest in the region’s nationality issues. Presenting a detailed study, this book examines the state-led nation-building projects in the Soviet republics of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Exploring the degree, forms and ways of the Soviet state involvement in creating Kazakh and Uzbek nations, this book places the discussion within the theoretical literature on nationalism. The author argues that both Kazakh and Uzbek nations are artificial constructs of Moscow-based Soviet policy-makers of the 1920s and 1930s. This book challenges existing arguments in current scholarship by bringing some new and alternative insights into the role of indigenous Central Asian and Soviet officials in these nation-building projects. It goes on to critically examine post-Soviet official Kazakh and Uzbek historiographies, according to which Kazakh and Uzbek peoples had developed national collective identities and loyalties long before the Soviet era. This book will be a useful contribution to Central Asian History and Politics, as well as studies of Nationalism and Soviet Politics.