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Russian colonial society in Tashkent, 1865-1923

This intensively researched urban study dissects Russian Imperial and early Soviet rule in Islamic Central Asia from the diverse viewpoints of tsarist functionaries, Soviet bureaucrats, Russian workers, and lower-class women as well as Muslim notables and Central Asian traders. Jeff Sahadeo's s...

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Main Author: Sahadeo, Jeff 1967- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bloomington Indiana University Press [2007]
Subjects:
Imperialism
Tashkent (Uzbekistan) > History > 19th century
Tashkent (Uzbekistan) > History > 20th century
Uzbekistan > Foreign relations > Russia
Russia > Foreign relations > Uzbekistan
Russia > Territorial expansion
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Prologue: Tashkent before the Russians and the dynamics of conquest
  • Ceremonies, construction, and commemoration
  • Educated society, identity, and nationality
  • Unstable boundaries: the colonial relationship and the 1892 "Cholera riot"
  • Migration, class, and colonialism
  • The predicaments of "progress," 1905-1914
  • War, empire, and society, 1914-1916
  • Exploiters or exploited? Russian workers and colonial rule, 1917-1918
  • "Under a Soviet roof": city, country, and center, 1918-1923
  • Conclusion

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