Veiled empire : gender & power in Stalinist Central Asia /
Drawing on research in Russian and Uzbekistani archives, the author reconstructs the turbulent history of a Soviet campaign that sought to end the seclusion of Muslim women. He shows it as emblematic of the larger Soviet attempt to bring the proletarian revolution to Muslim Central Asia.
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2004.
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Series: | EBSCO Academic Collection
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Embodying Uzbekistan
- Hujum, 1927
- Bolshevik blinders
- The Chust affair
- Subaltern voices
- With friends like these
- Crimes of daily life
- The limits of law
- Stalin's Central Asia?
- Conclusion.