“The Mukri Kurds” by O. L. Vilchevsky: What and Why Has Been Deleted Before Publication?
Journal: Islam in the modern world
Year: 2021

The article deals with the problem of political inﬂuence on scholarship. It analyses the existing versions of an ethnographic essay by Oleg Vilchevsky, a prominent Soviet Orientalist. Alongside a published version the ethnographic essay “The Mukri Kurds” — an author’s typescript, “Mukri Kurdistan,” has been found in the Scientiﬁc Archive of Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (the Kunstkamera) of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The ﬁrst materials for this essay were collected