Nomadic Hearths of Soviet Culture

‘Women’s Red Yurt’ Campaigns in Kazakhstan, 1925–1935

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ID12299656
AuthorsRebekah Ramsay (0000-0002-7850-663X, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume73
Issue10
Pages1937-1961
Publication date2021-07-08
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEurope Asia Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0966-8136 • E-ISSN: 1465-3427
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09668136.2021.1940869
OpenAlexW3181695747
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited20

This article discusses the ‘red yurt’ campaigns in early Soviet Kazakhstan, in which party and state institutions sponsored mobile centres of Soviet culture in nomadic pastoralist communities. In conversation with other literature on nomadic encounters with the Soviet state, this article considers how red yurts sought to exemplify Soviet ‘culturedness’ (kul’turnost’) within nomadic ‘everyday life’ (byt)—two concepts that have, so far, been discussed primarily in the Russian context. It argues that the campaigns were less antagonistic towards nomadic lifestyles and more embedded in regional discourse than has often been assumed, although realities on the ground complicated idealistic plans

Archaeology · Context (archaeology · Conversation · Political science · Sociology · State (computer science · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Gender Studies · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Soviet and Russian History

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