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Uzbek Music’s Separate Path: Interpreting ‘Anticosmopolitanism’ in Stalinist Central Asia and Stalin’s Music Prize

Kiril Tomoff in his text mentions the “Kul’tura i zhizn’” articles. According to Tomoff, these articles considered certain cosmopolitan authors of music textbooks betrayers, because the authors devalued classical Russian music criticism and underestimated the accomplishments of nineteenth-century Russian composers. … Continue reading

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Doug Northrop, Veiled Empire: Gender and Power in Stalinist Central Asia

Northrop’s reading portrays a failure of the Bolshevik indigenization and sovietization politics in Uzbekistan in 1920s. It gives us a quite clear idea that onе of the most crucial reasons of this failure was the inconsistency of the Soviet government … Continue reading

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