scispace - formally typeset
Open AccessJournal Article

BOOK REVIEWS - Curative Powers: Medicine and Empire in Stalin's Central Asia

Paula A Michaels, +1 more
- 01 Jan 2004 - 
- Vol. 31, Iss: 3, pp 355-356
About
This article is published in Russian History-histoire Russe.The article was published on 2004-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 57 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Empire.

read more

Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

A Global Perspective: Reframing the History of Health, Medicine, and Disease.

TL;DR: The purpose is to show how transnational and transimperial approaches are vital to understanding some of the key issues with which historians of health, disease, and medicine are concerned and to show what can be gained from taking a broader perspective.
Journal ArticleDOI

Druzhba Narodov or second-class citizenship? Soviet Asian migrants in a post-colonial world

TL;DR: The uniqueness of the late Soviet periphery to core migration, all the while placing it within a global post-colonial framework, was exposed in this paper, where the authors argue that subtle tensions existed on official and unofficial levels.

Everyday Life in Central Asia: Past and Present

TL;DR: A Central Asian Tale of Two Cities:Locating Lives and Aspirations in a Shifting Post-Soviet Cityscape Morgan Y. Liu Part Three: Gender Introduction 6. The Limits of Liberation: Gender, Revolution, and the Veil in Everyday Life in Soviet Uzbekistan Douglas Northrop 7. The Wedding Feast: Living the New Uzbek Life in the 1930s Marianne Kamp 8. Practical Consequences of Soviet Policy and Ideology for Gender in Central Asia and Contemporary Reversal Elizabeth Constantine 9. Dinner with Akhmet Greta Uehling Part Four:
Journal ArticleDOI

Marriage, modernity, and the ‘friendship of nations’: interethnic intimacy in post-war Central Asia in comparative perspective

TL;DR: This article examined the place of interethnic intimacy in post-Stalinist discourse and policy on nationality and modernity in Central Asia and found that the twin goals of intermarriage and ethnic assimilation were undermined by the increasing institutionalization and primordialization of ethnic identities in the post-war Soviet Union.