Not Some British Colony in Africa: The Politics of Decolonization and Modernization in Soviet Central Asia, 1955-1964

Не какая-нибудь британская колония в Африке: политика деколонизации и модернизации в советской Средней Азии, 1955–1964 гг.
Artemy M. Kalinovsky
2013-01-01

Soviet Central AsiaThird World politicscultural and economic modernizationde-Stalinizationdecolonization
This article examines the way that de-Stalinization and Soviet engagement in the Third World provided Central Asian elites with an opportunity to redefine the terms of their republics' cultural and economic participation in the Soviet Union. Drawing on archival materials, memoirs, and interviews, the article traces the careers of a number of key figures and examines their efforts to negotiate cultural and economic modernization by positioning themselves as Khrushchev's allies in de-Stalinization and the struggle for the Third World. The wave of decolonization occurring beyond the USSR's borders provided the impetus to complete the "decolonization" of the Central Asian republics within a Soviet framework. В статье рассматривается, как десталинизация и активизация советской политики в Третьем мире предоставили среднеазиатским элитам возможности для переопределения культурной и экономической роли среднеазиатских республик в Советском Союзе. Основываясь на архивных материалах, мемуарах и интервью, автор прослеживает карьеры ключевых представителей республиканских элит и анализирует их усилия для культурной и экономической модернизации региона. Самопозиционирование как союзников Хрущева по десталинизации и борьбе за влияние в третьем мире способствовало успеху этой политики. Автор заключает, что волна деколонизации, поднявшаяся за пределами СССР, способствовала завершению "деколонизации" советских среднеазиатских республик.
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Central Asian elites pursued cultural and economic modernization by presenting themselves as Khrushchev’s allies in de-Stalinization and the global struggle for influence.
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De-Stalinization and Soviet engagement with the Third World enabled Central Asian elites to renegotiate their republics’ cultural and economic roles within the Soviet Union.
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The article reconstructs these elite strategies through archival materials, memoirs, interviews, and the careers of key republican figures.
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The international wave of decolonization encouraged Central Asian elites to advance the internal “decolonization” of their republics within a Soviet framework.

Soviet Central Asian republics and their political elites during 1955–1964

The elites’ negotiation of cultural and economic modernization and redefinition of the republics’ role within the Soviet Union through de-Stalinization and engagement with the Third World

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