Russian colonial society in Tashkent [[electronic resource] ] : 1865-1923 / / Jeff Sahadeo

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451733703321
• Autore: Sahadeo Jeff <1967->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2007
• ISBN: 1-282-07905-0; 9786612079054; 0-253-11669-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (337 p.)
• Disciplina: 958.7
• Soggetti: Imperialism; Electronic books.; Tashkent (Uzbekistan) History 19th century; Tashkent (Uzbekistan) History 20th century; Uzbekistan Foreign relations Russia; Russia Foreign relations Uzbekistan; Russia Territorial expansion
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [285-]-303) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Prologue: Tashkent before the Russians and the dynamics of conquest -- Ceremonies, construction, and commemoration -- Educated society, identity, and nationality -- Unstable boundaries: the colonial relationship and the 1892 "Cholera riot" -- Migration, class, and colonialism -- The predicaments of "progress," 1905-1914 -- War, empire, and society, 1914-1916 -- Exploiters or exploited? Russian workers and colonial rule, 1917-1918 -- "Under a Soviet roof": city, country, and center, 1918-1923.
• Sommario/riassunto: This intensively researched urban study dissects Russian Imperial and early Soviet rule in Islamic Central Asia from the diverse viewpoints of tsarist functionaries, Soviet bureaucrats, Russian workers, and lower-class women as well as Muslim notables and Central Asian traders. Jeff Sahadeo's stimulating analysis reveals how political, social, cultural, and demographic shifts altered the nature ; of this colonial community from the tsarist conquest of 1865 to 1923, when Bolshevik authorities subjected th