Извечна Ли Маргинальность Русского Колониального Туркестана, Или Войдет Ли Постсоветская Средняя Азия в Область Post-Исследований

SUMMARY:

The article by Svetlana Gorshenina is devoted to the epistemological status of Russian Turkestan in the grid of disciplinary and area-studies production of knowledge. The author critically reviews arguments in historiography against the applicability of post-colonial theoretical frameworks of studies of Russian Turkestan, and devises an explanation as to how this exceptionalist perspective arose from the symbolic geography of the cold war, the paradigmatic constrains of the production of knowledge, and the languages of analysis of Russian history. By revisiting the history of scholarly and political discourses on Russian Central Asia, and considering a growth of reflexivity on boundaries and limitations of contemporary postcolonial studies, the author suggests that there is a possibility to redefine the history of Russian Turkestan in the spirit of post-colonial studies.