Social and Cultural Change in Central Asia: The Soviet Legacy

ISBN-13: 9781138575615 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 212 str.

Opis

Focusing on Soviet culture and its social ramifications both during the Soviet period and in the post-Soviet era, this book addresses important themes associated with Sovietisation and socialisation in the Central Asian states of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Soviet cultural legacy Part 1: Central Asia 1924-1991: Implementing a Soviet culture and society  1. ‘Learn, learn, learn!’ Soviet style in Uzbekistan: Implementation and planning 2. The emancipation of women in Soviet Central Asia from 1917 to 1940: Strategies, successes, and failures 3. The Soviet construction of Kazakh batyrs 4. The concept of traditional music in Central Asia: From the revolution to independence 5. Political, economic and historical foundations of Central Asian cinema 6. Socialist realism: Cooperation and challenge among non-Russian Central Asian writers 7. The Second World War in Central Asia: Events, identity, and memory  8. Becoming Soviet in Turkmenistan: The unseen influence of the ‘special settlers’ Part 2: The challenges of independence  9. The failure of liberal democratisation in Kazakhstan: The role of international investment and civil society in impending political reform 10. Social networking practices: Continuity or rupture with the Soviet past? 11. National identity formation in post-Soviet Central Asia: The Soviet legacy, primordialism, and patterns of ideological development since 1991 12. Deconstructing communal violence during the civil war in Tajikistan: The case of the Pamiris 13. The relics of 1991: Memories and phenomenology of the post-Soviet generation