Author: Zohidov Ochil – Fulbright visiting scholar 2009-2010. Tajikistan.
(Please note this is an abstract of the full version of this paper, which is available at: http://jsis.washington.edu/ellison/reecasnw_2010.shtml)
The end of the 20th century for Central Asian states indicated a new page for their statehood and instigated a new wave of nationalism. The traditional view was that Russian Bolsheviks created Central Asian nations and granted titular nations their own national states as stated, most notably, by Olivier Roy in his book. However Roy’s inferences are, it seems, the result of (incorrect) histories established by Russian historians long before Roy began writing about the political history of Central Asia. In short, these inferences prove to be wildly misleading. In his book Roy affirms that ‘it was Soviet system that implemented the model of the nation-state into a region where it had previously been unknown’. “While there had always been an Armenian and Georgian sense of nation,” he argues, one cannot say the same for the Tajik and the Uzbek”. Read more »
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