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131409
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2014.
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For some time now the theme of the conquest of Central Asia by the Russian Empire has been a subject of historical generalization. In a long-term temporal and broad geographical perspective, researchers have interested themselves in certain general tendencies and patterns, around which it is possible to structure grand narratives of 'conquest'. One of the consequences of this approach has been a predominant interest in a few 'key' events. Another has been a narrowing of the circle of those historical personages garnering attention to a few 'key' figures. Finally, the very analysis of events has been reduced in many cases to a study of the thoughts and projects of the colonizers with regard to Central Asia; other interpretations of the ordinary participants in military actions on both sides, their expectations and misgivings, have become immaterial, the disregarded dross of history. In this article, based on written and oral accounts of Russia's military campaign against the Khoqand Khanate in 1875-1876, I will attempt to write a microhistory of the conquest, reconstructing its local episodes, reconstructing and listening to the voices of various actors, and distinguishing different motivations, preferences and means of description.
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076010
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152012
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The article analyses governance practices in a Central Asian kolkhoz between the 1930s and early 1950s. It investigates the process of the kolkhoz’s construction, economic activities and structures of authority. Focusing on the figure of the kolkhoz chair (rais), the article scrutinizes the range of the rais’s duties and powers. By examining his relations with kolkhoz peasants, their strategies for instigating and resolving local conflicts, and their mechanisms for and the limitations on integrating his personal networks to gain authority, the article highlights the evolution of the political and social roles of the kolkhoz chair over the two decades between 1930s and 1950s. It argues that the transition of the rais from an insignificant to a powerful figure in the Soviet state was directly connected to the rise of the cotton industry in Tajikistan. The author proposes rethinking the period of Stalinism as dynamically evolving in diverse contexts, producing a variety of ‘Stalinisms’ which contradicted and amended each other.
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