Speaking Soviet with an accent
Subtitle: culture and power in Kyrgyzstan
By: Ali F. Igmen
Series: Central Eurasia in context
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780822962069
Subjects: Politics and culture; Government policy; Intellectual life; Cultural assimilation; Ethnic relations; Minorities; Kyrgyz; Cultural policy; Popular culture; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: crafting Kyrgyzness; title: Being "Asiatic" subjects of the empire; title: The making of Soviet culture in Kyrgyzstan during the 1920s and 1930s; title: The emergence of the Soviet houses of culture in Kyrgyzstan; title: Celebrations in Soviet Kyrgyzstan during the 1930s; title: Soviet theater in Kyrgyzstan in the 1930s; title: Self-fashioning Kyrgyzness among women; title: Conclusion: speaking Soviet the Kyrgyz way.