{"product_id":"tribal-nation-the-making-of-soviet-turkmenistan-9780691117751","title":"Tribal Nation: The Making of Soviet Turkmenistan","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn October 27  1991  the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic declared its independence from the Soviet Union. Hammer and sickle gave way to a flag  a national anthem  and new holidays. Seven decades earlier  Turkmenistan had been a stateless conglomeration of tribes. What brought about this remarkable transformation?  Tribal Nation addresses this question by examining the Soviet effort in the 1920s and 1930s to create a modern  socialist nation in the Central Asian Republic of Turkmenistan. Adrienne Edgar argues that the recent focus on the Soviet state as a \"maker of nations\" overlooks another vital factor in Turkmen nationhood: the complex interaction between Soviet policies and indigenous notions of identity. In particular  the genealogical ideas that defined premodern Turkmen identity were reshaped by Soviet territorial and linguistic ideas of nationhood. The Soviet desire to construct socialist modernity in Turkmenistan conflicted with Moscows policy of promoting nationhood  since many Turkmen viewed their \"backward customs\" as central to Turkmen identity.  Tribal Nation is the first book in any Western language on Soviet Turkmenistan  the first to use both archival and indigenous-language sources to analyze Soviet nation-making in Central Asia  and among the few works to examine the Soviet multinational state from a non-Russian perspective. By investigating Soviet nation-making in one of the most poorly understood regions of the Soviet Union  it also sheds light on broader questions about nationalism and colonialism in the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45652259274805,"sku":"ByrdShop_0691117756","price":78.17,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780691117751.jpg?v=1781850380","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/tribal-nation-the-making-of-soviet-turkmenistan-9780691117751","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}