About this title: During the anti-Gorbachev coup in August 1991 most communist leaders from Soviet central Asia backed the plotters. Within weeks of the coup's collapse, those same leaders - now transformed into ardent nationalists - proclaimed the independence of their nations, adopted new flags and new slogans, and discovered a new patriotism. How were these new nations built, without any traditional nationalist reference points? This book argues that Soviet practice had always been to build on local institutions and promote local elites, and that Soviet administration - as opposed to Soviet policy-making - ...
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Description: The creation of nations. 2000. (xvii, 222 p., notes, bibl., ind. ); paper. Excellent. The author's compelling analysis of the new Central Asian states of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kirghizstan and Azarbaijan makes an invaluabl contibution to our understanding of the geo-politics of Central Asia. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: NYU Press
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780814775554ISBN:0814775551
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: NYU Press
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780814775554ISBN:0814775551
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: New York University Press
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780814775554ISBN:0814775551
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: NYU Press
Date Published: 2000-10-01
ISBN-13:9780814775554ISBN:0814775551
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"Good insights, but heavy on the psychobabble. Sociopoliticobabble? Lots of "solidarity groups" and other things that people didn't know they were thinking."
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