Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan : life and politics during the Soviet era / Timur Dadabaev, Hisao Komatsu, editors.
Dadabaev, Timur, editor.; Dadabaev, Timur, 1975- author, editor.; Komatsu, Hisao, 1951- author, editor.
2017
JA1-92
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Title
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan : life and politics during the Soviet era / Timur Dadabaev, Hisao Komatsu, editors.
ISBN
1137522364
9781137522351
1137522356
9781137522368 (electronic book)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52236-8
Publication Details
New York : Palgrave Macmillan US, 2017.
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English
Description
1 online resource (151 pages).
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10.1057/978-1-137-52236-8 doi
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JA1-92
Dewey Decimal Classification
320
Summary
This volume offers perspectives from the general public in post-Soviet Central Asia and reconsiders the meaning and the legacy of Soviet administration in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. This study emphasizes that the way in which people in Central Asia reconcile their Soviet past to a great extent refers to the three-fold process of recollecting their everyday experiences, reflecting on their past from the perspective of their post-Soviet present, and re-imagining. These three elements influence memories and lead to selectivity in memory construction. This process also emphasizes the aspects of the Soviet era people choose to recall in positive and negative lights. Ultimately, this book demonstrates how Soviet life has influenced the identity and understanding of self among the population in post-Soviet Central Asian states
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This volume offers perspectives from the general public in post-Soviet Central Asia and reconsiders the meaning and the legacy of Soviet administration in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. This study emphasizes that the way in which people in Central Asia reconcile their Soviet past to a great extent refers to the three-fold process of recollecting their everyday experiences, reflecting on their past from the perspective of their post-Soviet present, and re-imagining. These three elements influence memories and lead to selectivity in memory construction. This process also emphasizes the aspects of the Soviet era people choose to recall in positive and negative lights. Ultimately, this book demonstrates how Soviet life has influenced the identity and understanding of self among the population in post-Soviet Central Asian states
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Dadabaev, Timur, editor.
Dadabaev, Timur, 1975- author, editor.
Komatsu, Hisao, 1951- author, editor.
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Politics and History in Central Asia.
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Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan.
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List of Contributors; Chapter 1: Collective Memory, Oral History and Central Eurasian Studies in Japan; Studies on Central Asian History in Japan; Development of Central Eurasian Studies; Islamic Area Studies; Quest for Memories of the Soviet Period; Notes; References; Chapter 2: Recollecting the Soviet Past: Challenges of Data Collection on Everyday Life Experiences and Public Memory in Post-ƯSoviet Central Asia; Sampling Method and Respondents; Interviewing; Challenges, Limitations and Biases.

Appendix 1: Selected respondents to the memory of the Soviet Past project in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan (2006-2014) Appendix 2: Interviewees' personal characteristics (Oral History Project, Formation of the Kyrgyz Identity in the Twentieth Century: 1916-1991); References; Chapter 3: Famine in Kyrgyzstan in the 1930s and 1940s; Narrations of the Problem; Survival; Official Sources; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 4: Soviet Agricultural Policy and Cultivating "Virgin Lands" in Kazakhstan; Narrative of Soviet Times; The Campaign: Its Origins and Targets.

Memoirs: Traces of Ancient Beliefs and Nomadic View for CultivatingMemoirs from the Virgin Lands Region; Memoirs from the Other Parts of Kazakhstan; Conclusion; Note; References; Chapter 5: Religious Life of Kyrgyz People According to Oral Materials; Ritualized Terms; Ritual Actors; The Pre-Soviet Period; The Soviet Period and Dilemmas; Religious and Belief Rituals Within a Dilemma; Conclusion; References; Chapter 6: Stalin's Passing Recollected; Stalin as a Political Figure and Human in Recollections; Hysteria and Shock Upon the News of Stalin's Death; Confusion; Relief; Conclusion.

References; Chapter 7: Evaluations of Perestroika in Post-Soviet Central Asia: Public Views in Contemporary Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan; Post-Soviet Central Asian Historiography on Perestroika; Slogans of Perestroika; Public Evaluation of Perestroika; Disillusionment with Perestroika; Perestroika as a Needed Reform that Went Wrong; Perestroika as a Success Story; Representations of Gorbachev in Post-Soviet CA; Gorbachev as the Soviet Leader; Gorbachev as an Intelligent But Weak Leader; Gorbachev as a Contradictory Egoist; Country-Specific Representations of the Perestroika Years.

Perestroika and the Cotton Affair/Uzbek Affair in Uzbekistan; Perestroika and the Almaty (Jeltoqsan) Events in Kazakhstan; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index.

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