An average azeri village (1930): Remembering rebellion in the Caucasus mountains

Bruce Grant

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    Abstract

    In this article, Bruce Grant advocates an anthropological perspective for understanding resistance to early Soviet rule, given that not all anti-Soviet. rebellions operated by the same cultural logic. Combining oral histories and archival evidence to reconstruct highly charged events in rural northwest Azerbaijan, where as many as 10,000 men and women joined to overthrow Soviet power in favor of an Islamic republic in 1930, Grant examines moral archetypes of banditry, religious frames of Caucasus life, magical mobility, and images of early nationalist struggle against communism. Exploring what it means to have been "average" in the Soviet Union of the 1930s, Grant invites readers to consider classic narrative framings of periods of great tumult.

    Original languageEnglish (US)
    Pages (from-to)705-731
    Number of pages27
    JournalSlavic Review
    Volume63
    Issue number4
    DOIs
    StatePublished - 2004

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Cultural Studies
    • Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)

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