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HIS-17


Making Friends, Keeping Friends: Internationalism in World War II-era and post-War Central Asia [Russian] 
Convenors:
Charles Shaw (Central European University)
Baurzhan Zhanguttin (Kazakh National Pedagogical University named after Abai)
Zukhra Kasimova (Bucknell University)
Rinat Shigabdinov (The Institute of History of The Academy of Sciences of The Republic of Uzbekistan)
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Formats:
Panel
Theme:
History
Location:
Room 108
Sessions:
Friday 24 June, -
Time zone: Asia/Tashkent

Short Abstract:

Making Friends, Keeping Friends: Internationalism in World War II-era and Post-War Central Asia [Russian]

Long Abstract:

This panel examines the elaboration of war-era internationalism, both within Soviet Central Asian and beyond its borders. The papers address how Central Asians enacted, interpreted, and elucidated notions of internationalism beyond the battlefield: the evacuation of Soviet civilians to Kazakhstan; an Uzbek couple's serial adoption of children of various nationalities; the first SADUM-sponsored hajj in 1944-45; and the song and dance of Tamara Khanum within and beyond Soviet borders. The papers demonstrate how Central Asians drew upon local traditions of hospitality, the Soviet rhetoric of Friendship of the Peoples, and pan-Islamic unity, thereby defining and expanding a unique, regional culture of internationalism. The four papers conceive of the war era as a unique moment in the region's international history, anticipating and enabling the region's more well-known chapter as site of Cold War, anti-colonial internationalism.

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Friday 24 June, 2022, -