Tribal Nation: The Making of Soviet Turkmenistan

Abstract

LIST OF MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION xv INTRODUCTION Tribe, Class, and Nation in Turkmenistan 1 PART I: MAKING A NATION CHAPTER ONE Sources of Identity among the Turkmen 17 CHAPTER TWO Assembling the Nation: The Creation of a Turkmen National Republic 41 CHAPTER THREE Ethnic Preferences and Ethnic Conflict: The Rise of a Turkmen National Elite 70 CHAPTER FOUR Helpers, Not Nannies: Moscow and the Turkmen Communist Party 100 CHAPTER FIVE Dueling Dialects: The Creation of a Turkmen Language 129 PART II: CONSTRUCTING SOCIALISM CHAPTER SIX A Nation Divided: Class Struggle and the Assault on Tribalism 167 CHAPTER SEVEN Cotton and Collectivization: Rural Resistance in Soviet Turkmenistan 197 CHAPTER EIGHT Emancipation of the Unveiled: Turkmen Women under Soviet Rule 221 CONCLUSION From Soviet Republic to Independent Nation-State 261 GLOSSARY OF TERMS AND ABBREVIATIONS 267 BIBLIOGRAPHY 269 INDEX 287