Edgar, Adrienne Lynn,  1960- <br/><br/>
Tribal nation :  the making of Soviet Turkmenistan / 
 Making of Soviet Turkmenistan 
Adrienne Lynn Edgar. 
 - Princeton, N.J. :  Princeton University Press,  2004. 
 - xvi, 296 p. :  ill., maps ;  24 cm. 
 - History / Slavic Studies .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-285) and index 
<br/><br/>Tribe, class, and nation in Turkmenistan --- Sources of identity in Turkmen --- Assembling the nation: the creation of a Turkmen national republic --- Ethnic preferences and ethnic conflict: the rise of a Turkmen national elite --- Helpers, not nannies: Moscow and the Turkmen Communist Party --- Dueling dialects: the creation of a Turkmen language --- A nation divided: class struggle and the assault on ’tribalism’ --- Cotton and collectivization: rural resistance in Soviet Turkmenistan ---  Emancipation of the unveiled: Turkmen women under Soviet rule. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0691117756 (alk. paper) 9780691117751 (alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Turkmen--Ethnic identity.<br/>Nationalism--Turkmenistan.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Turkmenistan--History--20th century.<br/>Turkmenistan--Social conditions.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>338 DK 938.85  / E23t 2004 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>958.5084