The Spectacular State: Culture and National Identity in Uzbekistan

by Laura L. Adams and George Steinmetz

Book Overview

Laura L. Adams offers unique insight into nation building in Central Asia during the post-Soviet era through an exploration of Uzbekistan's production of national culture in the 1990s. As she explains, after independence the Uzbek government maintained a monopoly over ideology, exploiting the remaining Soviet institutional and cultural legacies. The state expressed national identity through tightly controlled mass spectacles, including theatrical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822346435
• ISBN13: 9780822346432
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"