Speaking Soviet with an accent : culture and power in Kyrgyzstan

Speaking Soviet with an accent : culture and power in Kyrgyzstan / Ali F. Igmen.

"Speaking Soviet with an Accent presents the first English-language study of Soviet culture clubs in Kyrgyzstan. These clubs profoundly influenced the future of Kyrgyz cultural identity and fostered the work of many artists, such as famed novelist Chingiz Aitmatov. Based on extensive oral histo...

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Main Author: Igmen, Ali F.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012.
©2012
Series:Central Eurasia in context.
Subjects:
1900 - 1999
Politics and culture > Kyrgyzstan > History.
Popular culture > Kyrgyzstan > History.
Kyrgyz > Cultural assimilation > Soviet Union > History.
Minorities > Government policy > Soviet Union > History.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
HISTORY > General.
Cultural policy
Ethnic relations
Intellectual life
Minorities > Government policy
Politics and culture
Popular culture
Kyrgyzstan > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Soviet Union > Ethnic relations > History.
Soviet Union > Cultural policy > History.
Kyrgyzstan
Soviet Union
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: crafting Kyrgyzness
  • Being "Asiatic" subjects of the empire
  • The making of Soviet culture in Kyrgyzstan during the 1920s and 1930s
  • The emergence of the Soviet houses of culture in Kyrgyzstan
  • Celebrations in Soviet Kyrgyzstan during the 1930s
  • Soviet theater in Kyrgyzstan in the 1930s
  • Self-fashioning Kyrgyzness among women
  • Conclusion: speaking Soviet the Kyrgyz way.

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