PUBL.- M. Buttino, Revoliutsiia naoborot [An Upside Down Revolution-in Russian]
Posted by: Marco Buttino <marco.buttino@unito.it>
The Italian Association for the Study of Central Asia and the Caucasus (ASIAC)
is glad to announce the publication of:
Revoliutsiia naoborot, Sredniaia Aziia mezhdu padeniem tsarskoi imperii i
obrazovaniem SSSR
(An Upside Down Revolution, Central Asia between the Collapse of the Tsarist
Empire and the Formation of the USSR)
Translation from Italian: Nikolaj Okhotin
Afterword: Alberto Masoero
Translation of the revised edition of: "La rivoluzione capovolta", Napoli 2003
Author: Marco Buttino
Editor: Zven'ya, Moskva 2007, 447 pp.
Price: $30 (20 Euro)
The book deals with the history of Turkestan (the region of Central Asia
which is currently made up of the Republics of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan,
Tajikistan and Kirghizia) in the first quarter of the twentieth century. The
main focus is on the complex social and political dynamics which were set
off by the collapse of the Tsarist empire and the rise of the Soviet regime.
The study is heavily based on still unused primary sources, gathered in
Moscow, Tashkent and Ferghana. They range from the reports of the tsarist
administration on the state of the colony to the newspapers of Tashkent and
Vernyi, from the papers in the military, state and party archives to the
documents produced by the various levels of the local administration.
The study provides a fresh account of the events of this turbulent period by
highlighting the diversity of situations that characterised the various
parts of the region and the different contexts of Turkestan society. A
large part of the book is therefore devoted to an in-depth analysis of three
particularly illuminating cases: Tashkent, the headquarters of the Russian
political and military power; the Ferghana valley, a region where the armed
resistance against the Soviets (basmachestvo) was particularly strong; and
the Semirech'e, a nomads' region in which famine and the ensuing social
conflict assume catastrophic dimensions.
The book is distributed world-wide by Mezhdunarodnaya Kniga,
mkniga@gmail.com (the Russian books exporter from 1923, with a good
selection of leading humanities publishers from Russia)
For further information contact:
Marco Buttino
University of Torino, Dipartimento di Storia
via S.Ottavio 20
10124 Torino
Italy
E-mail: marco.buttino@unito.it
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