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Tribal nation

Edgar, Adrienne Lynn

2004,2006

Overview

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 Nationaddresses this question by examining the Soviet effort in the 1920s and 1930s 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 Nationis 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.

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Subject: 1Dvu / 1Fct / 20th century / Agitprop / Agriculture in Central Asia / Agriculture in the Soviet Union / Asia / Backwardness / Basmachi movement / Bolsheviks / Central Asia / Central Committee / Cold War / Colonialism / Communal apartment / Communism / Communism in Russia / Comrade / Cousin marriage in the Middle East / Cultural backwardness / Dual power / Ernest Gellner / Ethnic identity / Europe / Great Leap Forward / Hammer and sickle / Hbjf / Hblw3 / HISTORY / HISTORY / Asia / Central Asia / HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union / Imperialism / Indigenization / Jadid / Kazakhs / Khiva / Kolkhoz / Kulak / Language policy / Left Socialist Revolutionaries / Leftist errors (Yugoslavia) / Leninism / Marxism and the National Question / Marxism–Leninism / Mensheviks / Nationalism / Nationalism & Patriotism / Nationalism -- Turkmenistan / Nationality / New Army / New Economic Policy / New Laws / Old Bolshevik / Oppression / Pan-Turkism / Peasant / Political Ideologies / Political party / POLITICAL SCIENCE / POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism / Primitive communism / Propaganda in the Soviet Union / Punitive expedition / Republics of the Soviet Union / Revolution / Russia & The Former Soviet Union / Russian Empire / Russian language / Russians / Social conditions / Soviet Empire / Soviet of Nationalities / Soviet Union / Sovietization / Special Organization (Ottoman Empire) / Superiority (short story) / Tajiks / The woman question / Trotskyism / Turkic peoples / Turkmen / Turkmen -- Ethnic identity / Turkmen alphabet / Turkmen language / Turkmenistan / Turkmenistan -- History -- 20th century / Turkmenistan -- Social conditions / Uzbekistan / Uzbeks / War / White movement / Yomut / Zhenotdel
• ISBN: 0691127999, 9780691117751, 0691117756, 9780691127996, 1400844290, 9781400844296