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Nomads and Soviet Rule - Central Asia under Lenin and Stalin (Paperback)
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Nomads and Soviet Rule - Central Asia under Lenin and Stalin (Paperback)
Series: Library of Modern Russia
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Winner of The Alexander Nove Prize 2018 The nomads of Central Asia
were already well accustomed to life under the power of a distant
capital when the Bolsheviks fomented revolution on the streets of
Petrograd. Yet after the fall of the Tsar, the nature, ambition and
potency of that power would change dramatically, ultimately
resulting in the near eradication of Central Asian nomadism. Based
on extensive primary source work in Almaty, Bishkek and Moscow,
Nomads and Soviet Rule charts the development of this volatile and
brutal relationship and challenges the often repeated view that
events followed a linear path of gradually escalating violence.
Rather than the sedentarisation campaign being an inevitability
born of deep-rooted Marxist hatred of the nomadic lifestyle, Thomas
demonstrates the Soviet state's treatment of nomads to be far more
complex and pragmatic. He shows how Soviet policy was informed by
both an anti-colonial spirit and an imperialist impulse, by
nationalism as well as communism, and above all by a lethal
self-confidence in the Communist Party's ability to transform the
lives of nomads and harness the agricultural potential of their
landscape. This is the first book to look closely at the period
between the revolution and the collectivisation drive, and offers
fresh insight into a little-known aspect of early Soviet history.
In doing so, the book offers a path to refining conceptions of the
broader history and dynamics of the Soviet project in this key
period.
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