Veiled empire

Northrop, Douglas Taylor.

Veiled empire gender & power in Stalinist Central Asia / [electronic resource] : Douglas Northrop. - xvii, 392 pages : illustrations, maps ;

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Embodying Uzbekistan -- Hujum, 1927 -- Bolshevik blinders -- The Chust affair -- Subaltern voices -- With friends like these -- Crimes of daily life -- The limits of law -- Stalin's Central Asia? -- Conclusion.

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Drawing on research in Russian and Uzbekistani archives, the author reconstructs the turbulent history of a Soviet campaign that sought to end the seclusion of Muslim women. He shows it as emblematic of the larger Soviet attempt to bring the proletarian revolution to Muslim Central Asia.


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Geschichte 1924-1941.
1900-1999


Women and communism--History--Uzbekistan--20th century.
Muslim women--Social conditions--Uzbekistan--20th century.
Veils--Social aspects--History--Uzbekistan--20th century.
Muslim women--Social conditions.
International relations.
Veils--Social aspects.
Women and communism.
Frauenpolitik
Gleichberechtigung
Kommunismus
Islam
Vrouwen.
Islam.
Communisme.
Frau.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Minority Studies.


Soviet Union--Relations--Uzbekistan.
Uzbekistan--Relations--Soviet Union.
Soviet Union.
Uzbekistan.
Mittelasien
Usbekistan


History.
Electronic books.

HX546 / .N67 2004

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