Soviet Orientalism and the Creation of Central Asian Nations

ISBN-13: 9780815365723 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 144 str.

Bustanov, Alfrid K. (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Opis

Orientalism – the idea that the standpoint of Western writers on the East greatly affected their writing about the East, the "Other" – applied also in Russia and the Soviet Union, where the study of exotic peoples incorporated into the Russian Empire became a major academic industry and the standpoint of writers greatly affected what they wrote. Russian/Soviet orientalism had a particularly important impact during the creation of new Central Asian republics, and this book explores this influence, providing a rich picture of academic politics, and showing how academic cultural classification cemented political boundaries, often in unhelpful ways.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. The Leningrad Connection: Oriental Projects of Source Editions  2. Nationalism and Regionalism: Dividing and Integrating Soviet Central Asia in Meta-Histories  3. The Establishment of Kazakh Orientology  General Conclusion

O autorze

Alfrid K. Bustanov obtained his doctorate from Amsterdam University, the Netherlands is now TAIF Professor of the History of Islamic Peoples of Russia, European University in St Petersburg.