Despite Cultures: Early Soviet Rule in Tajikistan

by Botakoz Kassymbekova

Despite Cultures examines the strategies and realities of the Soviet state-building project in Tajikistan during the 1920s and 1930s. Based on extensive archival research, Botakoz Kassymbekova analyzes the tactics of Soviet officials at the center and periphery that produced, imitated, and improvised governance in this Soviet southern borderland and in Central Asia more generally. She shows how the tools of violence, intimidation, and coercion...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822964198
• ISBN13: 9780822964193
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"