Power, Social Life, and Public Memory in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan

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ID4822500
AuthorsTimur Dadabaev (0000-0001-9029-2964, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume12
Issue1
Pages25-48
Publication date2010-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInner Asia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1464-8172 • E-ISSN: 2210-5018
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/146481710792710291
OpenAlexW1984409713
LanguageEN
Citations received6

This article attempts to analyse the memory of people through recollections of the everyday life of people in Soviet times in the Central Asian republics of Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. By using extensive interviews with seventy-five elderly people in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan regarding their Soviet-time experiences, this article argues that the public view of history in post-Soviet Central Asia often falls in between Soviet historiography advocating advances of Soviet past and post-Soviet historical discourses rejecting the Soviet past. Public perceptions of history in Central Asia are mostly shaped by and related to the everyday needs, experiences, identifications and mentality of people as opposed to the ideologies and political doctrines of the time. They often reflect not only the perceptions of people regarding their past but also their perceptions regarding their present

Ancient history · Central asia · Everyday life · Historiography · Ideology · Perception · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Psychology · Soviet and Russian History · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

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