Speaking Soviet with an Accent: Culture and Power in Kyrgyzstan

Contents

vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Crafting Kyrgyzness 1 Map of Kyrgyzstan 8 Chapter 1: Being “Asiatic” Subjects of the Empire 9 Chapter 2: The Making of Soviet Culture in Kyrgyzstan during the 1920s and 1930s 22 Chapter 3: The Emergence of the Soviet Houses of Culture in Kyrgyzstan 37 Illustrations 70–82 Chapter 4: Celebrations in Soviet Kyrgyzstan during the 1930s 83 Chapter 5: Soviet Theater in Kyrgyzstan in the 1930s 98 Chapter 6: Self-Fashioning Kyrgyzness among Women 120 Conclusion: Speaking Soviet the Kyrgyz Way 140 Notes 147 Glossary 181 Bibliography 187 Index 227 CONTENTS ...