| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 401 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Oxford studies in international history |
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Oxford studies in international history.
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| Contents |
Introduction : the eastern international in the long Soviet century -- Anti-colonial dreams and the territorialization of Soviet power -- A Bolshevik laboratory for revolution in the East -- Arabization, purges, and terror -- Muslim tradition forbids reciting the Qur'an while drunk -- Decolonization and the thaw -- Scripting Central Asian revolution for the Afro-Asian world -- The eastern international in an age of globalization |
| Summary |
"The Eastern International is a study of how the concept of "the East" was used by the world's first communist state and its mediators to organize space and to project, channel, and contest power across Eurasia. It is a story of how various intermediaries tried to shape the global conversation about decolonization in an effort to build support and win global legitimacy for the Soviet Union as an anti-colonial state power. They succeeded in this task because the ideas of anti-capitalism, anti-fascism, and liberation from colonial exploitation inspired so many around the world. Recontextualizing Soviet history within a global frame, my project shows how the USSR popularized critiques of capitalism, fascism, and colonialism through propaganda, education, cultural relations and later, through political and economic aid in international "Eastern" regions, as it all the while concealed other inequalities and forms of exploitation, including in its "domestic East." By telling these stories while concealing others, these mediators contributed to the marginalization of the Soviet Union from conversations about cultural and political decolonization happening in the Middle East and elsewhere. My book reinscribes Soviet history into postcolonial studies and global history"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 08, 2024) |
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Arabs -- Soviet Union
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Central Asians -- Soviet Union
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Jews -- Soviet Union.
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Arabs.
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Central Asians.
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Diplomatic relations.
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Jews.
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| SUBJECT |
Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- Middle East
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Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- Asia, Central
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Middle East -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union
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Asia, Central -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union
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Central Asia.
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Middle East.
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Soviet Union.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2023040827 |
| ISBN |
9780197685730 |
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0197685730 |
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0197685714 |
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9780197685723 |
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0197685722 |
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9780197685716 |
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