Veiled empire [electronic resource] : gender & power in Stalinist Central Asia / Douglas Northrop.

By:

Northrop, Douglas Taylor

Publisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2004Copyright date: ©c2004Description: xvii, 392 pages : illustrations, mapsContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9781501702976
1501702971

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Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:

305.48/697/0958709043 22

LOC classification:

HX546 .N67 2004

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15.70
15.75
NQ 5067
MG 84010
305.4869709587

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Contents:

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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Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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