{"product_id":"making-uzbekistan-nation-empire-and-revolution-in-the-early-ussr-9781501735851","title":"Making Uzbekistan: Nation, Empire, and Revolution in the Early USSR","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Adeeb Khalid\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Asia - Central Asia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaking Uzbekistan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, Adeeb Khalid chronicles the tumultuous history of Central Asia in the age of the Russian revolution.\u003c\/b\u003e He explores the complex interaction between Uzbek intellectuals, local Bolsheviks, and Moscow to sketch out the flux of the situation in early-Soviet Central Asia. His focus on the Uzbek intelligentsia allows him to recast our understanding of Soviet nationalities policies. Uzbekistan, he argues, was not a creation of Soviet policies, but a project of the Muslim intelligentsia that emerged in the Soviet context through the interstices of the complex politics of the period. \u003ci\u003eMaking Uzbekistan\u003c\/i\u003e introduces key texts from this period and argues that what the decade witnessed was nothing short of a cultural revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpen Access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46457409601687,"sku":"9781501735851","price":4741.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781501735851.webp?v=1769181539","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/making-uzbekistan-nation-empire-and-revolution-in-the-early-ussr-9781501735851","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}