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The eastern international : Arabs, Central Asians, and Jews in the Soviet Union's anticolonial empire /

"The Eastern International is a study of how the concept of "the East" was used by the world's first communist state and its mediators to organize space and to project, channel, and contest power across Eurasia. It is a story of how various intermediaries tried to shape the globa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kirasirova, Masha (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
Series:Oxford studies in international history.
Subjects:
Arabs > Soviet Union.
Central Asians > Soviet Union.
Jews > Soviet Union.
Soviet Union > Foreign relations > Middle East.
Soviet Union > Foreign relations > Asia, Central.
Middle East > Foreign relations > Soviet Union.
Asia, Central > Foreign relations > Soviet Union.
Juifs > URSS.
URSS > Relations extérieures > Asie centrale.
Moyen-Orient > Relations extérieures > URSS.
Asie centrale > Relations extérieures > URSS.
Arabes > URSS.
Asia.
HISTORY.
Europe.
Middle East.
Arabs
Central Asians
Diplomatic relations
Jews
Central Asia
Middle East
Soviet Union
Politics & government.
Politics and Government.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the eastern international in the long Soviet century
  • Anti-colonial dreams and the territorialization of Soviet power
  • A Bolshevik laboratory for revolution in the East
  • Arabization, purges, and terror
  • Muslim tradition forbids reciting the Qur'an while drunk
  • Decolonization and the thaw
  • Scripting Central Asian revolution for the Afro-Asian world
  • The eastern international in an age of globalization.