Masha Kirasirova

The Eastern International

Arabs, Central Asians, and Jews in the Soviet Union's Anticolonial Empire

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Eastern International traces how the concept "East" (Vostok) was used by the world's first communist state and its mediators to project, channel, and contest power across Eurasia. It highlights the roles played in this process by Jewish activists, Arab intellectuals, and Central Asian politicians and artists.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 160mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780197685709
• ISBN-10: 0197685706
• Artikelnr.: 68355436

Autorenporträt

Masha Kirasirova is Assistant Professor of History at New York University Abu Dhabi. She is an editor of Russian-Arab Worlds: A Documentary History (OUP, 2023) and The Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties Between Protest and Nation-Building.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Introduction: The Eastern International in the Long Soviet Century
* Chapter 1: Anti-Colonial Dreams and the Territorialization of Soviet
Power
* Chapter 2: A Bolshevik Laboratory for Revolution in the East
* Chapter 3: Arabization, Purges, and Terror
* Chapter 4: Muslim Tradition Forbids Reciting the Qur'an while Drunk
* Chapter 5: Decolonization and the Thaw
* Chapter 6: Scripting Central Asian Revolution for the Afro-Asian
World
* Chapter 7: The Eastern International in an Age of Globalization
* Conclusion
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index