The Surrogate Proletariat
Moslem Women and Revolutionary Strategies in Soviet Central Asia, 1919-1929
Samenvatting
The attempted modernization of Central Asia by the central Soviet government in the 1920's was a dramatic confrontation between radical, determined, authoritarian communists and a cluster of traditional Moslem societies based on kinship, custom, and religion. The Soviet authorities were determined to undermine the traditional social order through t

