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On October 27, 1991, the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic declared its independence from the Soviet Union. Hammer and sickle gave way to a flag, a national anthem, and new holidays. Seven decades earlier, Turkmenistan had been a stateless conglomeration of tribes. What brought about this remarkable transformation? __Tribal Nation__ addresses this question by examining the Soviet effort in the 1920s and 1930s to create a modern, socialist nation in the Central Asian Republic of Turkmenistan. Adrienne Edgar argues that the recent focus on the Soviet state as a "maker of nations" overlooks another vital factor in Turkmen nationhood: the complex interaction between Soviet policies and indigenous notions of identity. In particular, the genealogical ideas that defined premodern Turkmen identity were reshaped by Soviet territorial and linguistic ideas of nationhood. The Soviet desire to construct socialist modernity in Turkmenistan conflicted with Moscow's policy of promoting nationhood, since many Turkmen viewed their "backward customs" as central to Turkmen identity. __Tribal Nation__ is the first book in any Western language on Soviet Turkmenistan, the first to use both archival and i
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- Author
- Adrienne Lynn Edgar; American Council of Learned Societies
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780691117751
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Political Science, History, Government & Politics
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