1. The Central Asian Revolt of 1916: A Collapsing Empire in the Age of War and Revolution
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Drieu, Cloé, Alexander, Morrison, Chokobaeva, Aminat, Centre d'études turques, ottomanes, balkaniques et centrasiatiques (CETOBaC), École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Collège de France (CdF (institution))-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Cloé Drieu, Alexander Morrison, Aminat Chokobaeva, and Centre d'études turques, ottomanes, balkaniques et centrasiatiques (CETOBAC)
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uprising ,Central Asia ,First World war ,Turkestan ,Russian Empire ,[SHS.HIST]Humanities and Social Sciences/History ,[SHS.SCIPO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Political science - Abstract
International audience; The 1916 Revolt was a key event in the history of Central Asia, and of the Russian Empire in the First World War. This volume is the first comprehensive re-assessment of its causes, course and consequences in English for over sixty years. It draws together a new generation of leading historians from North America, Japan, Europe, Russia and Central Asia, working with Russian archival sources, oral narratives, poetry and song in Kazakh and Kyrgyz. These illuminate in unprecedented detail the origins and causes of the revolt, and the immense human suffering which it entailed. They also situate the revolt in a global perspective as part of a chain of rebellions and disturbances that shook the world’s empires, as they crumbled under the pressures of total war.
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- 2020