1st Edition
Nation-Building and Personality Cult in Turkmenistan The T�rkmenbasy Phenomenon
By Fabio De Leonardis
Copyright 2018
130 Pages
by
Routledge
130 Pages
by
Routledge
130 Pages
by
Routledge
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Turkmenistan is a country which is almost sealed off from the rest of the world but it has attracted foreign attention due to the eccentricities of its late president Saparmurat Niyazov Türkmenbaşy, whose ideological construction and dynamics of power have remained in place after his death. This book offers a thorough analysis of why this personality cult developed in Turkmenistan in a way... Read more
Introduction - Niyazov’s Turkmenistan: yet another mystery wrapped in an enigma? 1. What is a personality cult? 2. Qadhdhafi’s Libya: a ‘maverick state’ 3. Turkmenistan: from ‘tribal society’ to modern nation? 4. Niyazov’s personality cult as a unifying tool for nation-building
Biography
Fabio De Leonardis received his PhD from University of Bari, Italy. He was previously a visiting scholar at the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Stanford University, USA, and is currently a teacher at Academy Union Education, Shenzhen, the People’s Republic of China.
