TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kemper,Michael
AU  - Conermann,Stephan
TI  - The heritage of Soviet Oriental studies
T2  - Routledge contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe series
SN  - 9780415599771 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - DK855.8 .H47 2011
U1  - 958.0072/047 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Asia, Central
KW  - Study and teaching (Higher)
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - History
KW  - Russia
KW  - Historiography
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Foreword : the heritage of Soviet Oriental studies / Stephan Conermann -- Introduction : integrating Soviet Oriental studies / Michael Kemper -- The imperial roots of Soviet Orientology / David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye -- Profiles under pressure : Orientalists in Petrograd/Leningrad, 1918-56 / Mikhail Rodionov -- Between the "language of humanity" and latinizatsiia : Nikolai Marr and the Oriental Department of the State Public Library in Leningrad / Aleksei Asvaturov -- The contribution of Oriental scholarship to the Soviet anti-Islamic discourse : from the Union of Militant Atheists to the Knowledge Society / Vladimir Bobrovnikov -- Soviet Kurdology and Kurdish Orientalism / Michiel Leezenberg -- Evgenii M. Primakov : Arabist and KGB middleman, director and statesman / Mikhail Roshchin -- The Leningrad/St. Petersburg School of Scientific Islamology / Stanislav M. Prozorov -- Hijacking Islam : the search for a new Soviet interpretation of political Islam in 1980 / Hanna E. Jansen and Michael Kemper -- Scholars, advisers and state-builders : Soviet Afghan studies in the light of present-day Afghan development / Anna R. Paterson -- The struggle for the reestablishment of Oriental studies in twentieth-century Kazan / Mirkasym A. Usmanov -- Arabic historical studies in twentieth-century Daghestan / Amri R. Shikhsaidov -- The politics of scholarship and the scholarship of politics : imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet scholars studying Tajikistan / Lisa Yountchi -- Conceiving a people's history : the 1920-1936 discourse on the Kazakh past / Zifa-Alua Auezova -- Ahmad Yasavi and the Divan i hikmat in Soviet scholarship / Devin DeWeese -- Kyrgyz "Muslim-Central Asian" : recent approaches to the study of Kyrgyz culture in Kyrgyzstan / Till Mostowlansky -- The transformation of Azerbaijani Orientalists into Islamic thinkers after 1991 / Altay Goyushov, Naomi Caffee and Robert Denis
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