Russian colonial society in Tashkent : 1865-1923 / / Jeff Sahadeo

• Autore: Sahadeo Jeff <1967->
• Pubblicazione: Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (337 p.)
• Disciplina: 958.7
• Soggetto topico: Imperialism
• Soggetto geografico: Tashkent (Uzbekistan) History 19th century; Tashkent (Uzbekistan) History 20th century; Uzbekistan Foreign relations Russia; Russia Foreign relations Uzbekistan; Russia Territorial expansion
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Russian colonial society in Tashkent
• ISBN: 1-282-07905-0; 9786612079054; 0-253-11669-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818303303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II