Title Veiled empire : gender & power in Stalinist Central Asia / Douglas Northrop

Edition First edition Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2004

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Description xvii, 392 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm Contents 1. Embodying Uzbekistan -- 2. Hujum, 1927 -- 3. Bolshevik Blinders -- 4. The Chust Affair -- 5. Subaltern Voices -- 6. With Friends Like These -- 7. Crimes of Daily Life -- 8. The Limits of Law -- 9. Stalin's Central Asia? Summary 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. Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Women and communism -- Uzbekistan -- History -- 20th century. Muslim women -- Uzbekistan -- Social conditions -- 20th century. Veils -- Social aspects -- Uzbekistan -- History -- 20th century. SUBJECT USSR -- Relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117063 -- Uzbekistan. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91129869 Uzbekistan http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91129869 -- Relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007590 -- Soviet Union. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80126312 LC no. 2003020316 ISBN 0801439442 cloth alkaline paper 9780801439445 cloth alkaline paper 0801488915 paperback alkaline paper 9780801488917 paperback alkaline paper

Other Titles Gender & power in Stalinist Central Asia Gender and power in Stalinist Central Asia

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