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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