Nation-Building and Personality Cult in Turkmenistan: The Türkmenbaşy Phenomenon

ISBN-13: 9780367891855 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 122 str.

Fabio de Leonardis

Opis

This book offers a thorough analysis of why this personality cult developed in Turkmenistan in a way that has not been seen in other newly developed Central Asian countries. In assessing the Türkmenbaşy phenomenon, this book explains the causes and origins of the personality cult by drawing a comparison with Qadhdhafi’s Libya.

Spis treści

Introduction - Niyazov’s Turkmenistan: yet another mystery wrapped in an enigma? 1. What is a personality cult? 2. Qadhdhafi’s Libya: a ‘maverick state’ 3. Turkmenistan: from ‘tribal society’ to modern nation? 4. Niyazov’s personality cult as a unifying tool for nation-building

O autorze

Fabio De Leonardis received his PhD from University of Bari, Italy. He was previously a visiting scholar at the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Stanford University, USA, and is currently a teacher at Academy Union Education, Shenzhen, the People’s Republic of China.