The Myth of Resistance: The Basmachi Movement and Anti-Colonial Struggle
Section outline
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Key topics:
The fight for independence, anti-colonial struggle in the past and today
Readings:
Martha B. Olcott, The Basmachi or Freemen's Revolt in Turkestan 1918-1924, Soviet Studies, Vol. 33, Issue 3 (July 1981), pp. 352-369
Slavomir Horák, „The Battle of Göktepe in the Turkmen post-Soviet historical discourse,“ Central Asian Survey. October 14, 2014.
Aurélie Campana, „Collective Memory and Violence: The Use of Myths in the Chechen Separatist Ideology, 1991–1994,“ Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 29(1), (2009), pp. 43-56. (Taylor & Francis Database)