The eastern international : Arabs, Central Asians, and Jews in the Soviet Union's anticolonial empire

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    • Kirasirova, Masha

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The eastern international : Arabs, Central Asians, and Jews in the Soviet Union's anticolonial empire

Masha Kirasirova

Oxford University Press, [2024]

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Arabs, Central Asians, and Jews in the Soviet Union's anticolonial empire

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-362) and index.

Summary:"The Eastern International is a study of how the concept of "the East" was used by the world's first communist state and its mediators to organize space and to project, channel, and contest power across Eurasia. It is a story of how various intermediaries tried to shape the global conversation about decolonization in an effort to build support and win global legitimacy for the Soviet Union as an anti-colonial state power. They succeeded in this task because the ideas of anti-capitalism, anti-fascism, and liberation from colonial exploitation inspired so many around the world. Recontextualizing Soviet history within a global frame, my project shows how the

Contents of Works

  • The eastern international in the long Soviet century
  • Anticolonial dreams and the territorialization of Soviet power
  • A Bolshevik laboratory for revolution in the East
  • Arabization, purges, and terror
  • Muslim tradition forbids reciting the Qur'an while drunk
  • Decolonization and the thaw
  • Scripting Central Asian revolution for the Afro-Asian world
  • The eastern international in an age of globalization.
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