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

By: Edgar, Adrienne LynnMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Princeton, N.J.; Oxford : Princeton University Press, c2004Description: xvi, 296 p.: ill., maps; 25 cmISBN: 0691117756 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Nationalism | Turkmenistan | Social conditionsDDC classification: 958.5084
Contents:
Introduction : tribe, class, and nation in Turkmenistan -- Ch. 1. Sources of identity among the Turkmen -- Ch. 2. Assembling the nation : the creation of a Turkmen national republic -- Ch. 3. Ethnic preferences and ethnic conflict : the rise of a Turkmen national elite -- Ch. 4. Helpers, not nannies : Moscow and the Turkmen Communist Party -- Ch. 5. Dueling dialects : the creation of a Turkmen language -- Ch. 6. A national divided : class struggle and the assault on "tribalism" -- Ch. 7. Cotton and collectivization : rural resistance in Soviet Turkmenistan -- Ch. 8. Emancipation of the unveiled : Turkmen women under Soviet rule -- Conclusion : from Soviet Republic to independent nation-state.
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Includes bibliography and index.

Introduction : tribe, class, and nation in Turkmenistan -- Ch. 1. Sources of identity among the Turkmen -- Ch. 2. Assembling the nation : the creation of a Turkmen national republic -- Ch. 3. Ethnic preferences and ethnic conflict : the rise of a Turkmen national elite -- Ch. 4. Helpers, not nannies : Moscow and the Turkmen Communist Party -- Ch. 5. Dueling dialects : the creation of a Turkmen language -- Ch. 6. A national divided : class struggle and the assault on "tribalism" -- Ch. 7. Cotton and collectivization : rural resistance in Soviet Turkmenistan -- Ch. 8. Emancipation of the unveiled : Turkmen women under Soviet rule -- Conclusion : from Soviet Republic to independent nation-state.

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