Turkmenistan is a country which is almost sealed off from the rest
of the world but it has attracted foreign attention due to the
eccentricities of its late president Saparmurat Niyazov
Turkmenbasy, whose ideological construction and dynamics of power
have remained in place after his death. This book offers a thorough
analysis of why this personality cult developed in Turkmenistan in
a way that has not been seen in other newly developed Central Asian
countries. In assessing the Turkmenbasy phenomenon, this book
explains the causes and origins of the personality cult by drawing
a comparison with Qadhdhafi's Libya. The author understands the
Niyazov cult not as a discrete phenomenon but as a system deriving
from specific historical functions and functioning in a determined
social and historical context. Using accounts of the Turkmenbasy
and Qadhdhafi cults and the speeches and books written by these
personalities, this book focuses on the institutional side of the
personality cult. A fascinating analysis of the political situation
in Turkmenistan under Saparmurat Niyazov, this book will be of
interest to scholars of Political Science, Comparative Politics
and, in particular, Central Asian Studies.
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