1st Edition
Soviet Orientalism and the Creation of Central Asian Nations
By Alfrid K. Bustanov
Copyright 2015
172 Pages
by
Routledge
172 Pages
by
Routledge
172 Pages
by
Routledge
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Orientalism – the idea that the standpoint of Western writers on the East greatly affected what they wrote about the East, the "Other" – applied also in Russia and the Soviet Union, where the study of the many exotic peoples incorporated into the Russian Empire, often in quite late imperial times, became a major academic industry, where, as in the West, the standpoint of writers greatly affected... Read more
Introduction 1. The Leningrad Connection: Oriental Projects of Source Editions 2. Nationalism and Regionalism: Dividing and Integrating Soviet Central Asia in Meta-Histories 3. The Establishment of Kazakh Orientology General Conclusion
Biography
Alfrid K. Bustanov obtained his doctorate from Amsterdam University, the Netherlands is now TAIF Professor of the History of Islamic Peoples of Russia, European University in St Petersburg.
