Viktor Turin's Turksib (1929) and Soviet Orientalism

Payne, Matthew

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“…Arriving unemployed go to institutions, demanding work or sending them back at the expense of the state. But neither of them can be satisfied (Kleespies, 2018;Payne, 2001b;Reid, 2017).…”

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Unemployment in the Area of Construction of the Turkestan-Siberian Railroad

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It is important to underline the relevance and role of the Turkish railroad construction in the early twentieth century, one of the most ambitious transport projects of those times. It was a unique project which connected Asia and Siberia. From the beginning of the construction of the Turkestan-Siberian Railway (Turksib), controversy began with construction and the labour force. This study explores the characteristics of the construction of Turksib with a focus on labour migration and labour law. The article deals with the archival materials of the Central State Archive of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The results of this study will be useful as a basis for further research into the regions' demographics and the characteristics of railroads and construction employment.

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“…Arriving unemployed go to institutions, demanding work or sending them back at the expense of the state. But neither of them can be satisfied (Kleespies, 2018;Payne, 2001b;Reid, 2017).…”

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“…At this time, one of the unemployed hit a Cossack who was standing near him. There was a big scandal, which was eliminated by the Komsomol and Communists, who were present at the exchange (Payne, 2001b).…”

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“…15 The goal of the studio was the p roduction of "truly eastern" films, the promotion of cinematographic culture and cinema networks in the national republics, and the development of local film production and distribution. Among its most memorable releases was Viktor Turin's Turksib (1929), an acclaimed dramatized account of the railway construction between Turkestan and Siberia which became one of the central Soviet media campaigns at the end of the 1920s (Payne 2001a;2001b). Among its most memorable releases was Viktor Turin's Turksib (1929), an acclaimed dramatized account of the railway construction between Turkestan and Siberia which became one of the central Soviet media campaigns at the end of the 1920s (Payne 2001a;2001b).…”

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The Adventures of theKulturfilmin Soviet Russia

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2016

A Companion to Russian Cinema

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Riding theSoviet Iron Horse: A Reading of Viktor Turin'sTurksibthrough the Lens of John Ford

Kleespies¹

2018

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This article considers Viktor Turin's 1929 film Turksib to be a “Red Western,” or film that is indebted to an American cinematic, visual, and literary tradition in its production of a vision of a Soviet frontier. Turksib engages with a discourse of frontierority that proved central to the articulation of Soviet identity in the 1920s and early 1930s. Drawing from prerevolutionary cultural paradigms for Russian national and imperial growth, as well as from the key American myth of the train's role in vanquishing the frontier, Turksib is a film meant to realize notions of territorial largesse in an ideologically-acceptable manner—that is, to reconfigure the dominant imperialist-capitalist model of the frontier in socialist terms. A close study of Turin's film in comparison to its western counterpart, John Ford's early classic, The Iron Horse (1924), reveals the challenge of distinguishing industrialization and modernization in socialist and avowedly anti-imperial rather than capitalist and colonial terms.

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Viktor Turin's Turksib (1929) and Soviet Orientalism

Cited by 7 publications

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Unemployment in the Area of Construction of the Turkestan-Siberian Railroad

Unemployment in the Area of Construction of the Turkestan-Siberian Railroad

The Adventures of theKulturfilmin Soviet Russia

Riding theSoviet Iron Horse: A Reading of Viktor Turin'sTurksibthrough the Lens of John Ford

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