Soviet Orientalism And The Creation Of Central Asian Nations (Central Asian Studies)

Orientalism - the idea that the standpoint of Western writers on the East greatly affected their writing about the East, the "Other" - applied also in Russia and the Soviet Union, where the study of exotic peoples incorporated into the Russian Empire became a major academic industry and the standpoint of writers greatly affected what they wrote. Russian/Soviet orientalism had a particularly important impact during the creation of new Central Asian republics, and this book explores this influence, providing a rich picture of academic politics, and showing how academic cultural classification cemented political boundaries, often in unhelpful ways. 9781138019225 1138019224 0 Asia, Central NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=jHymoAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api en

• • Author: Alfrid K. Bustanov
• • Publisher: Routledge
• • Publication Date: Dec 11, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 144 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1138019224
• • ISBN-13: 9781138019225