Antropology of history of Central Asia 1917-1991 3620-1-AS1-HAS17-91w

1. Cental Asia before the Bolshevik revolution. Stages of expansion of Russian Empire. Characteristics of tsarist rule in Central Asia. Military administration of general governorship, control over Bukhara emirate and Kiva khanate. Weaves of settlers. Influence on economy and tansportation infrastructure. Colonizers' approach to local populations and their civilization.
2. Political and ideological tends among Muslim population of tsarist Russia. Jadidism, qadimism, pan-Turkism, pan-Islamism. Influence of Young-Turcs and Iranian modernists. Calculations of Western Powers (Great Britain, Germany), elements of Great Game.
3. Beginning of revolution in Central Asia. Revolt of 1916. Reactions to February revolution. Rule of Sovnarkom in Tashkent. New power's terror. Economic and social decline. Isolation of the region during the internal war. Alash Orda in Kazakhstan. Suppression of the Kokand Republic - beginnings of basmachi movement.
4. Basmachi. Characteristics of the movement. Periodization of basmachi activities. Unification attempts (Irgash, Enver Pasha). Ideology or lack of it (Islamism, pan-Islamism, national independence, fight against ecenomic exploitation). Basmachi in the eyes of Bolsheviks.
5. 1919-1922. Arrival of Turkkomissia and Red Army. Shaping of new state structures. New approch to local population and Islam. Korenizatsia. NEP. Dissolution of Alash Orda and, later Bukhara emirate and Khiva kahanate. Promotion of jadids.
6. Preparation for division of Central Asia. New legal and administrative system.Elimination of Islam from public life, ateism. Collectivization and senetarization. New weaves of settlers. Central Asia as part of unitary state system of the USSR.
7. Stages of political evolition of soviet political and administrative rule, korenizatsiya. 1924-1938 sovietization, purges, ateism, russification. 1941-1956 attempt to attract Muslims into realization of stategoals. Inception of muftiyats, promotion of local communists. Khrushchev and Brezhnev era, sblizheniye - rastsvet - sliyaniye. Gorbachev revolution, exchange of cadres, fight against corruption and nepotism.
8. Social and cultural soviet policy in Central Asia. Treatment of national traditions. "Big Brother". Religion. Education and elimination of illiteracy. Language policy, evolution of alphabets. Demographic factor. Ethnic tensions. Central Asia a tool of soviet foreign politics.