Uzbekistan: History

In this study, Professor Edward A. Allworth provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of an important group of Muslim people who used to live within the boundaries of the Soviet Union. After the Russians and the Ukrainians, the Uzbeks were the largest ethnic group in the Soviet Union and the strongest of a number of Muslim communities in the vast region of Central Asia.

In "Making Uzbekistan," Adeeb Khalid chronicles the tumultuous history of Central Asia in the age of the Russian revolution. He explores the complex interaction between Uzbek intellectuals, local Bolsheviks, and Moscow to sketch out the flux of the situation in early-Soviet Central Asia.

This groundbreaking work in women's history explores the lives of Uzbek women, in their own voices and words, before and after the Russian Revolution of 1917. Drawing upon their oral histories and writings, Marianne Kamp reexamines the Soviet Hujum, the 1927 campaign in Soviet Central Asia to encourage mass unveiling as a path to social and intellectual "liberation."

Al-Narshakhi's "The History of Bukhara" is unusual among histories of Middle Eastern cities because it provides a broad and perceptive overview of urban life of the time, as opposed to the standard biographies of religious leaders. Richard Frye's translation from the Persian presents an engaging, readable narrative that recreates the lively intellectual and commercial life of this vibrant ancient city in the tenth century.

Table of Contents:
- A City to Be Transformed
- Imagining a "Cultured" Tashkent
- War and Evacuation
- Central Asian Lives at War
- The Postwar Soviet City, 1945-1953
- Central Asian Tashkent and the Postwar Soviet State
- Redesigning Tashkent after Stalin
- The Tashkent Model
- Epilogue