From hero worship to organized oblivion
Representations of the People's Front in Tajikistan's national memory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11047522 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kirill Nourzhanov (0000-0002-2680-5259, Australian National University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 140-157 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nationalities Papers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-5992 • E-ISSN: 1465-3923 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00905992.2016.1235143 |
| OpenAlex | W2557648791 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
The People's Front of Tajikistan (PFT), one of the parties to the country's civil war, was instrumental in bringing the government of President Emomali Rahmon to power. The article examines the official strategies of memorialization of the PFT from the early 1990s to the present. It discusses the emergence of a canon of the PFT heroes and martyrs and locates it within the nascent national mythology after independence. It argues that the maintenance of this canon was rendered impossible by the imperatives of consolidating presidential authority and securing national reconciliation following the 1997 peace deal. It concludes with an examination of the growing tension between the official line of historical amnesia on the one hand and resurgent social memory on the other. People in Tajikistan are increasingly interested in revisiting the events and protagonists of the war to develop a sense of the past, and remembering the PFT forms an essential part of their search for shared history and a sense of identity
Amnesia · Art · Collective memory · Front (military · HERO · Independence (probability theory · Literature · Memorialization · Mythology · National identity · Political science · Power (physics · Presidential system · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Peacebuilding and International Security · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
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| Highly cited | No |
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