Tribal Nation: The Making of Soviet Turkmenistan by Edgar, Adrienne Lynn
Tribal Nation: The Making of Soviet Turkmenistan by Edgar, Adrienne Lynn

Tribal Nation: The Making of Soviet Turkmenistan

On October 27, 1991, the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic declared its independence from the Soviet Union. Hammer...
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Author: Adrienne Lynn Edgar
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Tribal Nation: The Making of Soviet Turkmenistan by Edgar, Adrienne Lynn

Tribal Nation: The Making of Soviet Turkmenistan

$143.25
Tribal Nation: The Making of Soviet Turkmenistan by Edgar, Adrienne Lynn

Tribal Nation: The Making of Soviet Turkmenistan

$143.25
Author: Adrienne Lynn Edgar
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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 indigenous-language sources to analyze Soviet nation-making in Central Asia, and among the few works to examine the Soviet multinational state from a non-Russian perspective. By investigating Soviet nation-making in one of the most poorly understood regions of the Soviet Union, it also sheds light on broader questions about nationalism and colonialism in the twentieth century.

Author: Adrienne Lynn Edgar
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 09/25/2006
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.08w x 0.72d
ISBN: 9780691127996

About the Author
Adrienne Lynn Edgar is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She was formerly an editor of World Policy Journal.
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