Writing the Soviet South into the History of the Cold War and Decolonization

Kalinovsky, Artemy M.

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“…The Uzbek Republic, being the centre of the Soviet East, was home to the Consulates General of Mongolia (from 1977), Afghanistan (from 1982), and India (from 1987) (Kozybaev, 2001). The Uzbek SSR and the Tajik SSR, with a common Persian heritage and centuries-old cultural, commercial, and religious connections, along with the legacy of the Mughal Empire, followed the centuries-old course with Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India (Kalinovsky, 2020).…”

Section: Diplomatic Capabilities Of Soviet Central Asiamentioning

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“…Central Asia became a showcase of Soviet diplomacy. Central Asian representatives participated in various high-level delegations to Asia, Africa, and the Middle East (Kalinovsky, 2020). Simultaneously, the functions of the republican foreign ministries were expanded.…”

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“…Mukhitdinov also promoted the development and restoration of the cultural heritage of Uzbekistan and revived the study of national history. Mukhitdinov’s role in the Central Asian states was crucial in terms of pioneering Central Asian representation in various domestic and international arenas while promoting Central Asian interests (Kalinovsky, 2013, 2020; Kirasirova, 2011).…”

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“…A number of Central Asians achieved significant visibility, power, and influence in the highest echelons of Soviet power due to their contribution to Soviet Eastern policy (Jansen, 2019; Kalinovsky, 2013). Central Asians were used to provide knowledge about the East, to prove and show the Soviet commitment to preserving the inheritance of its former colonial areas, and to strengthen the long-term connections of the Soviet East with the broader East (Kalinovsky, 2020). Central Asian scholars became regular members of high-level delegations to the East while the Central Asian capitals, especially Tashkent, became the strategic Soviet periphery on an international level (Cucciolla, 2020; Kalinovsky, 2013).…”

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Soviet Science Diplomacy: How Central Asia was Instrumentalised in Soviet Foreign Policy

Muratbekova

2023

Journal of Eurasian Studies

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During the years of the Cold War, the opportunities for foreign scientific cooperation by Soviet scholars were limited. However, despite the impediments of the Soviet system, Central Asian science's cooperation with the outside world has continued. In virtue of being of Asian origin and Muslim and having profound knowledge and understanding of the language and civilizational processes of the East, Central Asian people had a special place in Soviet foreign policy. The Central Asians attracted the sympathy of the peoples of the East, which granted them access to their scientific and diplomatic connections. The paper examines how Central Asians used understanding of and ties to the East in diplomacy, for diplomacy, and with diplomacy. First, the paper unpacks the institutional and individual potential of Soviet Central Asian diplomacy and explains how it was used as a tool for Soviet strategy. The paper then examines Oriental studies as a knowledge basis that enabled improved and more in-depth Soviet diplomacy in the East given the pervasive and basic legacy of Oriental studies in studying the East. Further, Soviet involvement in UNESCO programmes in Asia provides insight into how Soviet policy used its soft power through international organisations. In conclusion, the author summarises how science diplomacy was used to further Soviet policy and evaluates the legacy of Soviet science diplomacy in light of recent developments.

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Section: Diplomatic Capabilities Of Soviet Central Asiamentioning

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Soviet Science Diplomacy: How Central Asia was Instrumentalised in Soviet Foreign Policy

Muratbekova

2023

Journal of Eurasian Studies

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“…In the context of 20 th century Central Asia, the rapid growth of cotton production, settler colonisation, and extraction of resources was started by the Imperial Russian and completed by the Soviet governments (Kassymbekova and Chokobaeva 2021:489). In the Soviet Union, these areas functioned as primary sites of cotton production ensuring that the Soviet textile industry in the European parts of the country would not need to rely on imports (Kalinovsky 2020). Moreover, cotton production was organised around racialised hierarchies: managers of the factories relied mostly on imported Russian‐speaking labour.…”

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Social Reproduction of Post‐Soviet Migrant Labour: Braiding the International Political Economy

Kangas

Krivonos

Khidjobova³

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In this article, we analyse the social reproduction of post‐Soviet migrant labour. Our inquiry builds on artwork by Olga Jitlina and Anna Tereshkina and by Mahpora Kiromova dealing with the effects of migration on family relations in Central Asia and the South Caucasus. We have braided the artwork with strands of social reproduction theory to examine the transnational household as a set of relationships that enables post‐Soviet and global capitalism to draw value out of unwaged work and to reproduce the differentiated (i.e. gendered and racialised) labour force. Our focus is on the tropes of family, weddings, love, and violence. The analysis of these tropes draws attention to the intersecting effects of globalised capitalism, local structures of value, the state, and patriarchy in post‐Soviet political economy. Through them we detail the fundamental co‐constitution of production and social reproduction, but also show that practices of social reproduction can be reservoirs of resistance and potential change.

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Opera as Critical “Synthesis”: Theorizing the Interface between Cosmopolitanism and Orientalism

O’Connor

2023

Comp Stud Soc Hist

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For centuries, European operas have portrayed dramatic, exotic Others on stage. However, as opera is increasingly adopted around the world, including by those “Eastern” Others it orientalized, its Othering tendencies serve new, more critical purposes. Post-colonial studies of knowledge and cultural production have shown how relations between centers and peripheries, knowledge and power are integral to forms of orientalism. In Tajikistan, the accounts of opera told today by the daughter of a successful Soviet Tajik composer bring to light the ambiguity of power relations and positionalities in Soviet opera’s production. Her accounts, beyond highlighting opera’s readily apparent orientalist tendencies, reveal surprising cosmopolitan aspirations in Soviet Central Asian opera. Cosmopolitan histories and values also feature heavily in post-colonial politics of knowledge production, but the concept appears worlds apart from, even in opposition to that of orientalism: the latter feeds off center-periphery, knowledge-power relations, while the former aspires to evade them. Through this present-day account of opera’s development in Soviet Tajikistan, this article challenges this opposition, theorizing a conceptual ambiguity and interdependence between orientalism and cosmopolitanism, which has important consequences for knowledge-producing fields like opera, as well as anthropology. Multiple forms of orientalism and cosmopolitanism overlapped and interacted in the development of Soviet Central Asian opera as numerous, intersecting meanings and socio-political agendas went into its production. Ultimately, a conceptual space emerges between the orientalism(s) and cosmopolitanism(s) at play. This ambiguous space in-between offers a lens for critically evaluating the complex, uneven practice of portraying and engaging with Others.

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Writing the Soviet South into the History of the Cold War and Decolonization

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Soviet Science Diplomacy: How Central Asia was Instrumentalised in Soviet Foreign Policy

Soviet Science Diplomacy: How Central Asia was Instrumentalised in Soviet Foreign Policy

Social Reproduction of Post‐Soviet Migrant Labour: Braiding the International Political Economy

Opera as Critical “Synthesis”: Theorizing the Interface between Cosmopolitanism and Orientalism

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