Description: Politics of Culture in Soviet Azerbaijan, 1920-40, Paperback by Altstadt, Audrey L., ISBN 1138477826, ISBN-13 9781138477827, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US The early Soviet Union’s nationalities policy involved the formation of many national republics, within which "nation building" and "modernization" were undertaken for the benefit of "backward" peoples. This book, in considering how such policies were implemented in Azerbaijan, argues that the Soviet policies were in fact a form of imperialism, with "nation building" and "modernization" imposed firmly along Soviet lines. Th demonstrates that in Azerbaijan, and more widely among western Turkic peoples, the Volga and Crimean Tatars, there were before the onset of Soviet rule, well developed, forward looking, secular, national movements, which were not at all "backward" and were different from the Soviets. Th shows how in the period 1920 to 1940 the two different visions competed with each other, with eventually the pre-Soviet vision of Azerbaijani culture losing out, and the Soviet version dominating in a new Soviet Azerbaijani culture. Th examines the details of this Sovietization of culture: in language policy and the change of the alphabet, in education, higher education and in literature. Th concludes by exploring how pre-Soviet Azerbaijani culture survived to a degree underground, and how it was partially rehabilitated after the death of Stalin and more fully in the late Soviet period.
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Book Title: Politics of Culture in Soviet Azerbaijan, 1920-40
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Politics of Culture in Soviet Azerbaijan, 1920-40
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Subject: Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies, Regional Studies, International Relations / General, World / European, Popular Culture
Publication Year: 2018
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, History
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Audrey Altstadt
Item Width: 6.1 in
Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
