Soviet Orientalism and the Creation of Central , Bustanov Hardcover..
Taylor & Francis
Soviet Orientalism and the Creation of Central Asian NationsAuthor(s): Alfrid K. Bustanov\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138019225, 978-1138019225\nSynopsis\nOrientalism the idea that the standpoint of Western writers on the East greatly affected what they wrote about the East, the \""Other\"" applied also in Russia and the Soviet Union, where the study of the many exotic peoples incorporated into the Russian Empire, often in quite late imperial times, became a major academic industry, where, as in the West, the standpoint of writers greatly affected what they wrote. Russian/Soviet orientalism had a particularly important impact in Central Asia, where in early Soviet times new republics, later states, were created, often based on the distorted perceptions of scholars in St Petersburg and Moscow, and often cutting across previously existing political and cultural boundaries. The book explores how the Soviet orie.
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