| Titre | The Soviet and Russian context of the development of nationalism in Soviet Central Asia | |
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| Auteur | Yaacov Ro'i | |
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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 | 123-141 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Yaacov Ro'i, The Soviet and Russian context of the development of nationalism in Soviet Central Asia.
This paper seeks to determine how far the various Central Asian nationalisms, which began to become a vocal political force towards the end of the 1980's, were influenced by extraneous factors. The national consciousness of the region's indigenous ethnic groups focused naturally on their cultural heritage, the region boasting a long tradition of art forms of varying sorts as well as a host of philosophers, thinkers and religious figures.
Their immediate allegiances tended to be to the region as a whole or to their specific locality rather than to their union republics, and to their clan or tribe and Islam rather than the nationality as defined by the arbitrary decision of Soviet administrative fiat. The political credo, terminology and atmospherics of the Soviet regime, however, inevitably made their imprint on the Central Asian intelligentsias. So too, did, on the one hand, the increasing nationalism of the Russians and the other European members of the Soviet body politic and, on the other, the openness and democratization that were first the slogans and then the driving impetus of the Gorbachev period and which among others provided the intelligentsias with a broad basis among the local population.
The outcome has been a peculiar admixture, of nationalisms whose terms of reference have been Soviet, Russian and European, but whose backbone has been their own cultural heritage and mores which it is their aim to reassert as they endeavor to shake off at least the more humiliating aspects of their subservience to Moscow. 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_2268 |
