| Titre | Some thoughts on the making of the Uzbek nation | |
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| Auteur | Ingeborg Baldauf | |
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Revue |
Cahiers du monde russe Titre à cette date : Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique |
| Numéro | volume 31, no 1, janvier-mars 1991 En Asie Centrale soviétique Ethnies, nations, États | |
| Page | 79-95 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Ingcborg Baldauf, Some thoughts on the making of the Uzbek nation.
The natsional'noe razmezhevanie in Central Asia (1924-1925) aimed at the formation of « national republics and territories. » In the cases of Kazakhs, Kirghiz, Turkmens, and to a certain degree Tadzhiks, the question of ethnic coherence and self-denomination of the emerging nations could be solved without major problems. The rest of the sedentary, semi-nomadic, and nomadic Turkic-speaking Turkestanians, larger by number than any of the other groups, had never in history formed an ethnic or national unit ; there existed several pre-modern concepts of self-identification based on regional, tribal, or even religious definition, none of them depicting congruency with the European romantic, language-centered concept of a nation. The introduction of this concept by Lenin-Stalinist national politics made it necessary to define a new nationality. Out of the prenational identilicatory concepts Sart, Chagatay, Muslim, Turk, and Uzbek, « Uzbek » was chosen to give a name to the nation, and to its territory, the Uzbekistan SSR The paper traces some of the problems the nation-builders found themselves confronted with in the process of shaping the Uzbek socialist nation. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/cmr_0008-0160_1991_num_32_1_2264 |
