TY - BOOK AU - Kemper,Michael AU - Conermann,Stephan TI - The heritage of Soviet Oriental studies T2 - Routledge contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe series SN - 9780415599771 (hardback : alk. paper) AV - DK855.8 .H47 2011 PY - 2011/// CY - Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, New York PB - Routledge KW - Asia, Central KW - Study and teaching (Higher) KW - Soviet Union KW - History KW - Russia KW - Historiography N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Introduction : integrating Soviet Oriental studies / Michael Kemper -- 2. The imperial roots of Soviet Orientology / David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye -- 3. Profiles under pressure : Orientalists in Petrograd/Leningrad, 1918-56 / Mikhail Rodionov -- 4. Between the 'language of humanity' and latinizatsiia : Nikolai Marr and the Oriental Department of the State Public Library in Leningrad / Aleksei Asvaturov -- 5. The contribution of Oriental scholarship to the Soviet anti-Islamic discourse : from the Militant Godless to the Knowledge Society / Vladimir Bobrovnikov -- 6. Soviet Kurdology and Kurdish Orientalism / Michiel Leezenberg -- 7. Evgenii M. Primakov : Arabist and KGB middleman, director and statesman / Mikhail Roshchin -- 8. The Leningrad/St. Petersburg School of Scientific Islamology / Stanislav M. Prozorov -- 9. Hijacking Islam : the search for a new Soviet interpretation of political Islam in 1980 / Hanna E. Jansen and Michael Kemper -- 10. Scholars, advisers and state-builders : Soviet Afghan studies in the light of present-day Afghan development / Anna R. Paterson -- 11. The struggle for the reestablishment of Oriental studies in twentieth-century Kazan / Mirkasym A. Usmanov -- 12. Arabic historical studies in twentieth-century Dagestan / Amri R. Shikhsaidov -- 13. The politics of scholarship and the scholarship of politics : imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet scholars studying Tajikistan / Lisa Yountchi -- 14. Conceiving a people's history : the 1920-1936 discourse on the Kazakh past / Zifa-Alua Auezova -- 15. Ahmad Yasavi and the Divan-i hikmat in Soviet scholarship / Devin DeWeese -- 16. Kyrgyz-Muslim-Central Asian? : recent approaches to the study of Kyrgyz culture in Kyrgyzstan / Till Mostowlansky -- 17. The transformation of Azerbaijani Orientalists into Islamic thinkers after 1991 / Altay Goyushov, Naomi Caffee and Robert Denis; Also available as an electronic resource UR - http://www.tandfebooks.com/isbn/9780415599771 ER -