TY - BOOK ID - 2934292 TI - Tribal nation : the making of Soviet Turkmenistan PY - 2004 SN - 0691117756 1400844290 9781400844296 0691127999 9780691127996 9780691117751 PB - Princeton : Princeton University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Turkmen KW - Nationalism KW - Turkmènes KW - Nationalisme KW - Ethnic identity. KW - Identité ethnique KW - Turkmenistan KW - Turkménistan KW - History KW - Social conditions. KW - Histoire KW - Conditions sociales KW - -Nationalism KW - -Consciousness, National KW - Identity, National KW - National consciousness KW - National identity KW - International relations KW - Patriotism KW - Political science KW - Autonomy and independence movements KW - Internationalism KW - Political messianism KW - Akhal Tekke-Turkomans KW - Salor-Turkomans KW - Sarik-Turkomans KW - Tekke-Turkomans KW - Turcomans KW - Turkmens KW - Turkomans KW - Ethnology KW - Turkic peoples KW - Ethnic identity KW - -Social conditions. KW - -Ethnic identity KW - Turkmènes KW - Identité ethnique KW - Turkménistan KW - Consciousness, National KW - Respublika Turkmenistan KW - Republic of Turkmenistan KW - Turkmenostan Respublikasy KW - トルクメニスタン KW - Torukumenisutan KW - تركمانستان KW - 土库曼斯坦 KW - Tukumansitan KW - Türkmenisztán KW - 투르크메니스탄 KW - T'urŭk'ŭmenisŭt'an KW - ترکمنستان KW - Turkmanistān KW - Turcomenistão KW - טורקמניסטן KW - Turkmen S.S.R. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2934292 AB - On October 27, 1991, the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic declared its independence from the Soviet Union. Hammer and sickle gave way to a flag, a national anthem, and new holidays. Seven decades earlier, Turkmenistan had been a stateless conglomeration of tribes. What brought about this remarkable transformation? Tribal Nation addresses this question by examining the Soviet effort in the 1920's and 1930's to create a modern, socialist nation in the Central Asian Republic of Turkmenistan. Adrienne Edgar argues that the recent focus on the Soviet state as a "maker of nations" overlooks another vital factor in Turkmen nationhood: the complex interaction between Soviet policies and indigenous notions of identity. In particular, the genealogical ideas that defined premodern Turkmen identity were reshaped by Soviet territorial and linguistic ideas of nationhood. The Soviet desire to construct socialist modernity in Turkmenistan conflicted with Moscow's policy of promoting nationhood, since many Turkmen viewed their "backward customs" as central to Turkmen identity. Tribal Nation is the first book in any Western language on Soviet Turkmenistan, the first to use both archival and indigenous-language sources to analyze Soviet nation-making in Central Asia, and among the few works to examine the Soviet multinational state from a non-Russian perspective. By investigating Soviet nation-making in one of the most poorly understood regions of the Soviet Union, it also sheds light on broader questions about nationalism and colonialism in the twentieth century. ER -