Empire and belonging in the Eurasian borderlands

Cornell University Press

2019

ix, 266 p.

9781501736131

PrefaceList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Belonging in the Eurasian Borderlands1. Making Minorities in the Eurasian Borderlands: A Comparative Perspective from the Russian and Ottoman EmpiresPart One: Negations of Belonging2. Bloody Belonging: Writing Transcaspia into the Russian Empire3. The Armenian Genocide of 1915: Lineaments of a Comparative History4. "Do you want me to exterminate all of them or just the ones who oppose us?": The 1916 Revolt in Semirech'e5. "What Are They Doing? After All, We're Not Germans": Expulsion, Belonging, and Postwar ExperiencePart Two: Belonging via Standardization6. Developing a Soviet Armenian Nation: Refugees and Resettlement in the Early Soviet South Caucasus7. Reforming the Language of Our Nation: Dictionaries, Identity, and the Tatar Lexical Revolution, 1900-19708. Speaking Soviet with an Armenian Accent: Literacy, Language Ideology, and Belonging in Early Soviet ArmeniaPart Three: Belonging and Mythmaking9. Making a Home for the Soviet People: World War II and the Origins of the Sovetskii Narod10. Dismantling "Georgia's Spiritual Mission": Sacral Ethnocentrism, Cosmopolitan Nationalism, and Primordial Awakenings at the Soviet Collapse11. New Borders, New Belongings in Central Asia: Competing Visions and the Decoupling of the Soviet UnionConclusionNotesContributorsIndex

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