Tribal nation: the making of Soviet Turkmenistan/
Adrienne Lynn Edgar
- Princeton, N.J.; Oxford : Princeton University Press, c2004.
- xvi, 296 p.: ill., maps; 25 cm.
Includes bibliography and index.
Introduction : tribe, class, and nation in Turkmenistan -- Sources of identity among the Turkmen -- Assembling the nation : the creation of a Turkmen national republic -- Ethnic preferences and ethnic conflict : the rise of a Turkmen national elite -- Helpers, not nannies : Moscow and the Turkmen Communist Party -- Dueling dialects : the creation of a Turkmen language -- A national divided : class struggle and the assault on "tribalism" -- Cotton and collectivization : rural resistance in Soviet Turkmenistan -- Emancipation of the unveiled : Turkmen women under Soviet rule -- Conclusion : from Soviet Republic to independent nation-state. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Ch. 5. Ch. 6. Ch. 7. Ch. 8.