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Subject(s)

• Arabs—Soviet Union [Browse]
• Central Asians—Soviet Union [Browse]
• Jews—Soviet Union [Browse]
• Soviet Union—Foreign relations—Middle East [Browse]
• Soviet Union—Foreign relations—Asia, Central [Browse]
• Middle East—Foreign relations—Soviet Union [Browse]
• Asia, Central—Foreign relations—Soviet Union [Browse]

Series

• Oxford studies in international history. [More in this series]
• Oxford scholarship online. [More in this series]

Summary note

The Eastern International is a study of how the concept of "the East" was used by the world's first communist state and its mediators to organise space and to project, channel, and contest power across Eurasia.

Notes

Also issued in print: 2024.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Target audience

Specialized.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on December 20, 2023).

Contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: The Eastern International in the Long Soviet Century
• 1. Anticolonial Dreams and the Territorialization of Soviet Power
• 2. A Bolshevik Laboratory for Revolution in the East
• 3. Arabization, Purges, and Terror
• 4. Muslim Tradition Forbids Reciting the Qur'an While Drunk
• 5. Decolonization and the Thaw
• 6. Scripting Central Asian Revolution for the Afro-​Asian World
• 7. The Eastern International in an Age of Globalization
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index.

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ISBN

• 0-19-768573-0
• 0-19-768572-2
• 0-19-768571-4

OCLC

1412037743

Doi

• 10.1093/oso/9780197685693.001.0001

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