Creating Uzbekistan. Nation, empire and revolution in the early Soviet period

The 1917 revolution brought Central Asia not just important changes in the way of life - it allowed the local intelligentsia to feel the voice of the people. Uzbekistan went through severe trials, war and hunger and received a fully reformatted society with new ideas about power, politics and culture.
In the book “Creation of Uzbekistan”, Adib Halid considers the difficult relationships of the Uzbek intelligentsia, local Bolsheviks and Moscow and comes to unexpected conclusions. For the author, the new Uzbek society is the result not only on October, but also the implementation of the national project that arose long before 1917. And the Uzbek cultural revolution is not only - and not in the first place - socialist, but also Muslim