The Soviet Union in Asia
Author | : Geoffrey Jukes |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520023932 |
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Author | : Geoffrey Jukes |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520023932 |
Author | : Bayram Balci |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2018-11-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 019091727X |
With the end of the Soviet Union in 1991, a major turning point in all former Soviet republics, Central Asian and Caucasian countries began to reflect on their history and identities. As a consequence of their opening up to the global exchange of ideas, various strains of Islam and trends in Islamic thought have nourished the Islamic revival that had already started in the context of glasnost and perestroika--from Turkey, Iran, the Arabian Peninsula, and from the Indian subcontinent; the four regions with strong ties to Central Asian and Caucasian Islam in the years before Soviet occupation. Bayram Balci seeks to analyse how these new Islamic influences have reached local societies and how they have interacted with pre-existing religious belief and practice. Combining exceptional erudition with rare first-hand research, Balci's book provides a sophisticated account of both the internal dynamics and external influences in the evolution of Islam in the region.
Author | : F. A. Mediansky |
Publisher | : Strategic and Defence Studies Centre |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : History |
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Release | : 1988 |
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Author | : Mohiaddin Mesbahi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780813013084 |
Leading Western, Russian, and Central Asian scholars address the two circumstances that continue to affect the Muslim states of the former Soviet Union: The enduring impact of the Soviet experience on ethno-social and political life; and the prospects for the recovery of their own identities now that the Soviet system has collapsed.
Author | : Roberto Conte |
Publisher | : Fuel Publishing |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2019-04-25 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 9780995745551 |
A fantastic collection of Soviet Asian architecture, many photographed here for the first time Soviet Asia explores the Soviet modernist architecture of Central Asia. Italian photographers Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego crossed the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, documenting buildings constructed from the 1950s until the fall of the USSR. The resulting images showcase the majestic, largely unknown, modernist buildings of the region. Museums, housing complexes, universities, circuses, ritual palaces - all were constructed using a composite aesthetic. Influenced by Persian and Islamic architecture, pattern and mosaic motifs articulated a connection with Central Asia. Grey concrete slabs were juxtaposed with colourful tiling and rectilinear shapes broken by ornate curved forms: the brutal designs normally associated with Soviet-era architecture were reconstructed with Eastern characteristics. Many of the buildings shown in Soviet Asia are recorded here for the first time, making this book an important document, as despite the recent revival of interest in Brutalist and Modernist architecture, a number of them remain under threat of demolition. The publication includes two contextual essays, one by Alessandro De Magistris (architect and History of Architecture professor, University of Milan, contributor to the book Vertical Moscow) and the other by Marco Buttino (Modern and Urban History professor, University of Turin, specializing in the history of social change in the USSR).
Author | : William M. Mandel |
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Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1944 |
Genre | : Asia, Central |
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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.
Author | : A. Haugen |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2003-10-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0230502849 |
After almost four centuries of expansion the Russian Empire at the beginning of the 20th century covered vast territories on the Eurasian continent and included an immensely diverse population. How was the new Russian regime to deal with the complexity of its population? This book examines the role of nation and nationality in the Soviet Union and analyzes the establishment of national republics in Soviet Central Asia. It argues that the originally nationally minded Soviet communists with their anti-nationalist attitudes came to view nation and national identity as valuable tools in state building.
Author | : Eugene B. Rumer |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2016-09-16 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1315289512 |
The disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991 rapidly and irrevocably transformed Central Asia's political landscape. This region of five sovereign states with a population of some fifty million people quickly became a major focus of interest and influence for competing poles of power. The eminent contributors to this volume offer a four-part analysis of the region's new importance in world affairs. Rajan Menon examines the place of Central Asia in a global perspective. Eugene Rumer considers the perspective of the post-9/11 United States. Dimitri Trenin looks at the region from the standpoint of traditional hegemon Russia. Huasheng Zhao provides the view from economic superpower-in-the-making China.