Making Ivan-Uzbek: War, Friendship of the Peoples, and the Creation of Soviet Uzbekistan, 1941-1945
Journal: eScholarship (California Digital Library)
Year: 2015

This dissertation addresses the impact of World War II on Uzbek society and contends that the war era should be seen as seen as equally transformative to the tumultuous 1920s and 1930s for Soviet Central Asia. It argues that via the processes of military service, labor mobilization, and the evacuation of Soviet elites and common citizens that Uzbeks joined the broader âSoviet peopleâ or sovetskii narod and overcame the prejudices of being âformerly backwardâ in Marxist ideology. The diss