State-Propagated Narratives about a National Defender in Central Asian States

This article examines the relationship between narratives propagated by the state about a historical national hero and a contemporary soldier's professional ideology in the post-Soviet Central Asian countries (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan). It argues that while e...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Erica Marat
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Centre d'Etudes et de Recherche sur les Sociétés et les Institutions Post-Soviétiques 2007-03-01
Series:Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/pipss/545