In Making Uzbekistan; Adeeb Khalid chronicles the tumultuous history of Central Asia in the age of the Russian revolution. Traumatic upheavals―war; economic collapse; famine―transformed local society and brought new groups to positions of power and authority in Central Asia; just as the new revolutionary state began to create new institutions that redefined the nature of power in the region. This was also a time of hope and ambition in which local actors seized upon the opportunity presented by the revolution to reshape their society. As the intertwined passions of nation and revolution reconfigured the imaginations of Central Asia's intellectuals; the region was remade into national republics; of which Uzbekistan was of central importance.Making use of archival sources from Uzbekistan and Russia as well as the Uzbek- and Tajik-language press and belles lettres of the period; Khalid provides the first coherent account of the political history of the 1920s in Uzbekistan. He explores the complex interaction between Uzbek intellectuals; local Bolsheviks; and Moscow to sketch out the flux of the situation in early-Soviet Central Asia. His focus on the Uzbek intelligentsia allows him to recast our understanding of Soviet nationalities policies. Uzbekistan; he argues; was not a creation of Soviet policies; but a project of the Muslim intelligentsia that emerged in the Soviet context through the interstices of the complex politics of the period. The energies unleashed by the revolution also made possible the golden age of modern culture; as authors experimented with new literary forms and the modern Uzbek language took shape. Making Uzbekistan introduces key texts from this period and argues that what the decade witnessed was nothing short of a cultural revolution.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Very InformativeBy TranquilityThis is a wonderful book on the religious and daily life in the Roman empire with an emphasis on how the Egyptian mythos was incorporated by the Greek and Romans. While the writing style is somewhat academic; it reads fast and smoothly. There is a high emphasis on the Egyptian goddess Isis and and her incorporation with local deities of the time.If you're looking for a book for research and documentation; you may have difficulty using this source since he combines like ideas about Roman and Greek mythology; but doesn't adhere to a strict timeline of events. However; if you are used to sifting for information; you might be fine with this.
