1st Edition

Identity and Memory in Post-Soviet Central Asia Uzbekistan's Soviet Past

By Timur Dadabaev Copyright 2016
226 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Central Asian states have experienced a number of historical changes that have challenged their traditional societies and lifestyles. The most significant changes occurred as a result of the revolution in 1917, the incorporation of the region into the Soviet Union, and gaining independence after the collapse of the USSR. Impartial and informed public evaluation of the Soviet and post-Soviet... Read more

1. Selectivity in Recalling Soviet Past in Uzbekistan: Re-collecting, Reflecting and Re-imagining 2. Power, Social Life, and Public Memory in Uzbekistan 3. Recollections of Trauma and Public Responses to the Political Violence of State Policies in the Stalinist Era in Uzbekistan 4. The impact of World War II /Greater Patriotic War in Uzbekistan 5. Death of Stalin: Time of Despair and Hope 6 Post-Soviet Nostalgia in Central Asia: Oral Accounts of Everyday Life in Soviet Uzbekistan 7. Hybrid Ethnic Identities in Soviet Uzbekistan 8. Religiosity and Soviet 'modernisation' in Central Asia: Locating religious traditions and rituals in recollections of antireligious policies in Uzbekistan 9. Placing the Mahalla between Public and Private Life

Biography

Timur Dadabaev is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tsukuba, Japan and Adjunct Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, University of Tokyo, Japan.