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  • Cinema, Nation, and Empire in Uzbekistan, 1919–1937

    by Cloé Drieu ...
    Translated by Adrian Morfee ...
    This study examines the creation of the Soviet State in Central Asia through the lens of Uzbek cinema—from the collapse of the Russian Empire to WWII.Between the founding of Soviet Uzbekistan in 1924 and the Stalinist Terror of the late 1930s, a nationalist cinema emerged. In Cinema, Nation, and Empire in Uzbekistan Cloé Drieu argues that the Uzbek films of this period provide a perfect angle for ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Central Asian Revolt of 1916

    A collapsing empire in the age of war and revolution

    Edited by Alexander Morrison, Cloé Drieu, Aminat Chokobaeva ...
    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 ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Cinema, Nation, and Empire in Uzbekistan, 1919-1937

    Translated by Adrian Morfee ...
    by Cloe Drieu ...
    Between the founding of Soviet Uzbekistan in 1924 and the Stalinist Terror of the late 1930s, a nationalist cinema emerged in Uzbekistan giving rise to the first wave of national film production and an Uzbek cinematographic elite. In Cinema, Nation, and Empire in Uzbekistan Cloé Drieu uses Uzbek films as a lens to explore the creation of the Soviet State in Central Asia, starting from the collapse ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Combatants of Muslim Origin in European Armies in the Twentieth Century

    Far From Jihad

    Edited by Xavier Bougarel, Raphaëlle Branche, Cloé Drieu ...
    During the two World Wars that marked the 20th century, hundreds of thousands of non-European combatants fought in the ranks of various European armies. The majority of these soldiers were Muslims from North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia, or the Indian Subcontinent.How are these combatants considered in existing historiography? Over the past few decades, research on war has experienced ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

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  • Creating Russophobia

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  • The Radicality of Love

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