General Information

Author/Creator

Bennigsen, Alexandre, 1913-1988.

Language

English.

Published

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1979.

Physical Description

xxii, 267 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Contributors

Contributor

Wimbush, S. Enders, 1945- (joint author.)

Contents/Summary

Summary

In this study, Bennigsen and Wimbush trace the development of the doctrine of national communism in Central Asia and the Caucasus. At the heart of this doctrine—as elaborated by the Volga Tatar, Mir-Said Sultan Galiev—was the concept of "proletarian nations," as opposed to the traditional notion of a working class. With such ideological innovations, Sultan Galiev and his contemporaries were able to reconcile Marxist nationalisms and Islam and devise an "Eastern strategy" whereby the national revolution was to be spread. The authors show that the ideas of Muslim national communism persist in the land of their birth and have spread to such developing societies as China, Algeria, and Indonesia. This doctrine is an important factor in the ideological split and increasing tensions between industrial and nonindustrial nations, East and West, and now North and South, which grip the world communist movement.

Subjects

Subject

Communism > Soviet Union > History.

Nationalism and communism.

Muslims > Soviet Union.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Alexandre A. Bennigsen, S. Enders Wimbush.

Series

Publications of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies ; no. 11

Note

Includes bibliography (p. 239-258) and index (p. 259-267).

Library Special Collection

HU OSA 300 - RFE/RL collection

ISBN

0226042359

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	335.43/0947 BEN		OSA Repository	-

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