Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-285) and index.
Contents
Tribe, class, and nation in Turkmenistan -- Sources of identity in Turkmen -- Assembling the nation: the creation of a Turkmen national republic -- Ethnic preferences and ethnic conflict: the rise of a Turkmen national elite -- Helpers, not nannies: Moscow and the Turkmen Communist Party -- Dueling dialects: the creation of a Turkmen language -- A nation divided: class struggle and the assault on 'tribalism' -- Cotton and collectivization: rural resistance in Soviet Turkmenistan -- Emancipation of the unveiled: Turkmen women under Soviet rule.
