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National Identities in Soviet Historiography
The Rise of Nations under Stalin
Central Asia Research Forum Series
Author: Yilmaz Harun
Language: EnglishSubject for National Identities in Soviet Historiography:
Keywords
wartime; propaganda; rise; nations; azerbaijani; ukrainian; historians; red; army; identity; Taras Shevchenko; Soviet Patriotism; anti-Russian Uprisings; National History; Azerbaijani Nation; Azerbaijani National Identities; Kazakh National; Kazakh Steppe; Ukrainian National; Kazakh Historians; Azerbaijani National; Anna Pankratova; Ukrainian Historians; Ukrainian National History; Aras River; Pereiaslav Agreement; Ukrainian SSR; Georgian SSR; Kazakh SSR; Aleksandr Nevskii; Iranian Azerbaijan; Armenian SSR; Kazakh ASSR; Kazakh Language; Russian Colonial Expansion
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Add to cart the book of Yilmaz HarunPublication date: 05-2017
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Under Stalin?s totalitarian leadership of the USSR, Soviet national identities with historical narratives were constructed. These constructions envisaged how nationalities should see their imaginary common past, and millions of people defined themselves according to them. This book explains how and by whom these national histories were constructed and focuses on the crucial episode in the construction of national identities of Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan from 1936 and 1945.
A unique comparative study of three different case studies, this book reveals different aims and methods of nation construction, despite the existence of one-party rule and a single overarching official ideology. The study is based on work in the often overlooked archives in the Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan. By looking at different examples within the Soviet context, the author contributes to and often challenges current scholarship on Soviet nationality policies and Stalinist nation-building projects. He also brings a new viewpoint to the debate on whether the Soviet period was a project of developmentalist modernization or merely a renewed ?Russian empire?. The book concludes that the local agents in the countries concerned had a sincere belief in socialism?especially as a project of modernism and development?and, at the same time, were strongly attached to their national identities.
Claiming that local communist party officials and historians played a leading role in the construction of national narratives, this book will be of interest to historians and political scientists interested in the history of the Soviet Union and contemporary Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Construction of Azerbaijani Identity Under the Shadow or Iran and Turkey
2. Miraculous Return of Babak to Azerbaijan
3. Pure Slavic Blood for Ukraine
4. Adventurous Lives of Bohdan Khmel’nyts’kyi
5. The Rise of Red Batyrs in the Kazakh Steppe
Introduction to War Period
6. Soviet Iranian Azerbaijan at War
7. Kazakh Batyrs Marching in Stalingrad
8. Bohdan Khmel’nyts’kyi Fighting Against Germans
Epilogue
Bibliography
Harun Yilmaz holds his MSc. and PhD from the University of Oxford, UK. He was a post-doc research fellow at Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, USA (2012) and a tutor at the University of Oxford. Currently he is a British Academy post-doctoral Research Fellow at Queen Mary University of London, UK. His area of interest and published research covers modern history of and contemporary politics in Russia, Ukraine, Caucasus, and Central Asia.