Helpless imperialists: European state workers in Soviet Central Asia in the 1920s and 1930s

Kassymbekova, Botakoz

doi:10.1080/02634937.2011.554052

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“…37 Thousands of educated and idealistic offi cials, like the Jewish Bolshevik Sluchak who hailed from Gomel΄ in the Belorussian SSR, went into "happy exile" in the 1920s in Dushanbe, Alma-Ata, Tashkent and other newly Sovietized Central Asian cities, subjecting themselves to material poverty but spiritual exhilaration. 38 The infl ux continued in succeeding decades, although under circumstances of wartime evacuation, and aft er the war at a much-reduced rate. 39 By the mid-1970s, offi cial concerns about rural overpopulation in Central Asia and a shortage of labor in rural Russia inspired eff orts to tempt Uzbeks and Turkmens to populate state farms in the non-black earth region and participate in oil and gas construction in Tiumen΄.…”

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Transnationalism in One Country? Seeing and Not Seeing Cross-Border Migration within the Soviet Union

Siegelbaum¹,

Moch

2016

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In the early 1990s social scientists began to refer to migrants who retained familial and economic ties with their country of origin as transnational. The term eventually gained currency among historians who had found multiple examples of such ties in earlier decades and centuries. Although migrants traveling among former Soviet republics came to be understood as transnational, Soviet-era migrants never have been so characterized. We contend that this is due to a double blindness: that of migration scholars to the Soviet Union as a “state of nations,” and that of historians of the Soviet period to migration as a complicating element in the construction of nationality. By emphasizing the transnational dimension of “internal” Soviet migration, we seek to sharpen awareness of how nationality worked in the Soviet context, particularly in its last decades. We thus posit the maintenance of economic, familial and other affective ties across Soviet national boundaries as the Soviet version of transnationalism—transnationalism in one country. We also suggest the ways that despite its well-deserved reputation for limiting international migration and otherwise restricting its citizenry, the Soviet state facilitated transnationalism within its borders.

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Section: Transnational Migration In the Soviet Unionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transnationalism in One Country? Seeing and Not Seeing Cross-Border Migration within the Soviet Union

Siegelbaum¹,

Moch

2016

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“…Eindrücklich die Schilderungen beiKassymbekova (2011).28 Zu den Konsequenzen dieses Prinzips:Lewin 1973. 29 APRK f. 719, op.…”

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Möglicherweise können diese Defizite durch zukünftige, stärker kulturhistorisch arbeitende Vulnerabilitätsstudien aufgefangen werden. Während für alle diese Bereiche Lösungen vorgeschlagen oder bereits eingeführt wurden, lässt sich die am häufigsten vorgebrachte Kritik kaum abstellen: Die Klage, dass mit dem Vulnerabilitätsansatz kein präzise definiertes Methoden-Instrumentarium einhergehe. Sie ist das Resultat einer Verwechslung: Als Brückenkonzept zielt der Ansatz gerade nicht darauf, die spezifischen Forschungsinventare der Fachdisziplinen zu überschreiben. Vielmehr bildet gerade die Aktivierung der methodischen Ressourcen des eigenen Wissensfeldes Grundlage und Inhalt effektiver interdisziplinärer Begegnungen. Die Stärke des Ansatzes liegt in seiner methodischen Offenheit, die Kontakt, Adaption und interdisziplinäres "borrowing" überhaupt erst ermöglicht (vgl. Weingart 2000). Ganz ähnlich wie die Brückenkonzepte "Diskurs" oder "Nachhaltigkeit" gibt der inhaltliche Kern des Vulnerabilitätskonzepts lediglich eine Perspektive für diesen Austausch vor: Multifaktorielle statt monokausaler Zugänge, dynamische Interdependenzen statt deterministischer Verläufe, Mensch-Natur Beziehungen als Verflechtungs-statt als Konfliktgeschichte. 9

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Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context

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Helpless imperialists: European state workers in Soviet Central Asia in the 1920s and 1930s

Cited by 10 publications

References 12 publications

Transnationalism in One Country? Seeing and Not Seeing Cross-Border Migration within the Soviet Union

Transnationalism in One Country? Seeing and Not Seeing Cross-Border Migration within the Soviet Union

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