Title: Allah's Kolkhozes :
Authors: Dudoignon, Stéphane A.,; Dudoignon, Stéphane A.,; Noack, Christian,; Noack, Christian,; Dudoignon, Stéphane A.,
Date: 2014
Publisher: KS, Klaus Schwarz Verlag,
Physical description: 541 pages : illustrations, maps (1 color) ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: D
Abstract: "The larger part of the Muslim population in the Soviet realm lived and continues to live in rural areas. Other than in many parts of the present-day world of Islam, alternative, self-segregated, often anti-establishment Muslim congregations emerged outside the big urban agglomerations of the former USSR. Among other factors of this emergence can be mentioned: the mass resettlements operated from the 1940s to the 1970s towards cash-crop growing lowlands; the tight limitation on the drift from the land by the Soviet authorities; the relative autonomy enjoyed by rural production units endowed with specialised economic profiles; and the liberalisation of religious practice in the wake of de-Stalinisation. Eleven case studies trace the transformations of Soviet and post-Soviet Islam within the former collectivised villages in Central Asia, the Caucasus and Inner Russia. The authors provide rich evidence for the close interplay between Soviet kolkhoz administrations and the religious personnel of Islam on the local lore. They show how this connection prepared the ground for the emergence of alternative Muslim congregations in already the post-Stalinist Soviet Union {u2014} long before the phenomenon became broadly visible during the boom of public religious practice in the late 1980s and early 1990s."--Publisher.
Contents: 'They were all from the country' : the revival and politicisation of Islam in the Lower Wakhsh river valley of the Tajik SSR (1947-1997) / Stéphane A. Dudoignon & Sayyid Ahmad Qalandar -- Maxim Gorki and Islamic revolution in a southern Tajik cotton plain : the failure of soviet integration in the countryside / Beate Giehler -- From old to new Macha : mass resettlement and the redefinition of Islamic practice between Tajikistan's upper valleys and cotton lowlands / Ariane Zevaco -- The economic and religious history of a Kolkhoz village : Khojawot from soviet modernisation to the aftermath of the Islamic revival / Bakhtyar Babadjanov -- The 'enlighteners' of Koni-Zar : islamic reform in a cotton Kolkhoz / Bakhtyar Babadjanov & Sharifjon Islamov -- From revived tradition to innovation : Kolkhoz Islam in the southern Kazakhstan region and religious leadership : the cases of Zhartï Töbe and Oranghay since the 1950s / Ashirbek Muminov -- Withering heights : the re-islamisation of a Kolkhoz village in Dagestan : a micro-history / Vladimir Bobrovnikov -- Downward mobility and spiritual life : the development of Sufism in the context of migrations in Dagestan, 1940s-2000s / Shamil Shikhaliev -- Sunflower and moon crescent : soviet and post-soviet Islamic revival in a Tatar village of Mordova / Ilnur Minnullin -- Traditionalism, modernism and globalisation among the Volga muslims : the case of Sredniaia Eliuzan' / Liliia Sagitova -- Urban, rural or something in between : the development of 'alternative' forms of Islam in Azerbaijan through the case of Nardaran village in Absheron / Rufat Sattarov -- List of maps -- List of contributors -- Indexes -- Personal names -- Place names -- Institutions, groups, facts, phenomena.
Notes: Research report.
Subject headings (LCSH): Agriculture and state--Soviet Union--History--20th century--Case studies.; Asia, Central--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.; Case studies.; Collective farms--Asia, Central--Case studies.; Collective farms--Soviet Union--Case studies.; Collective farms--Soviet Union--History--20th century--Case studies.; Collective settlements--Soviet Union--History--20th century--Case studies.; Islam and politics--Asia, Central.; Islam and politics--Russia (Federation); Islam and politics--Soviet Union.; Islam--Soviet Union--History--20th century--Case studies.; Minorities--Soviet Union.; Muslims--Asia, Central--History.; Muslims--Russia (Federation)--History.; Muslims--Soviet Union--History.; Rural-urban migration--Soviet Union--History--20th century--Case studies.; Soviet Union--Foreign relations--Asia, Central.