Soviet Orientalism and the Creation of Central Asian Nations

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Alfrid K. Bustanov

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Central Asian Studies

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Orientalism – the idea that the standpoint of Western writers on the East greatly affected what they wrote about the East, the "Other" – applied also in Russia and the Soviet Union, where the study of the many exotic peoples incorporated into the Russian Empire, often in quite late imperial times, became a major academic industry, where, as in the West, the standpoint of writers greatly affected what they wrote. Russian/Soviet orientalism had a particularly important impact in Central Asia, where in early Soviet times new republics, later states, were created, often based on the distorted perceptions of scholars in St Petersburg and Moscow, and often cutting across previously existing political and cultural boundaries. The book explores how the Soviet orientalism academic industry influenced the creation of Central Asian nations. It discusses the content of oriental sources and discourses, considers the differences between scholars working in St Petersburg and Moscow and those working more locally in Central Asia, providing a rich picture of academic politics, and shows how academic cultural classification cemented political boundaries, often in unhelpful ways.

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Alfrid K. Bustanov obtained his doctorate from Amsterdam University, the Netherlands is now TAIF Professor of the History of Islamic Peoples of Russia, European University in St Petersburg.

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December 3rd, 2014

Author

Alfrid K. Bustanov

Audience

Tertiary Education (US: College)

Pages

144

Series

Central Asian Studies

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156x234x20

ISBN-13

9781138019225

Product ID

22470718

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