Edgar, Adrienne Lynn, 1960-

Tribal nation : the making of Soviet Turkmenistan / Adrienne Lynn Edgar. - 1 online resource (315 pages) : illustrations, maps

Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-285) and index.

Tribe, class, and nation in Turkmenistan -- Sources of identity in Turkmen -- Assembling the nation: the creation of a Turkmen national republic -- Ethnic preferences and ethnic conflict: the rise of a Turkmen national elite -- Helpers, not nannies: Moscow and the Turkmen Communist Party -- Dueling dialects: the creation of a Turkmen language -- A nation divided: class struggle and the assault on 'tribalism' -- Cotton and collectivization: rural resistance in Soviet Turkmenistan -- Emancipation of the unveiled: Turkmen women under Soviet rule.

9781400844296 (e-book)


Turkmen--Ethnic identity.
Nationalism--Turkmenistan.


Turkmenistan--History--20th century.
Turkmenistan--Social conditions.


Electronic books.

DK938.85 / .E35 2004eb

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