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The hopes that the Central Asian intelligentsia attached to the Russian Revolution had a direct impact on cultural, national, religious and linguistic changes that shape the region’s zeitgeist today. In 1917, Central Asia was a recently conquered colony of the Russian empire, but by 1932, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan were fully a part of the new Soviet state. The economy was tied to the center in new ways and the region underwent a cultural revolution—campaigns for mass education and against illiteracy coincided with a flourishing of theater and the emergence of the novel and new forms of poetry. The Revolution made for strange bedfellows. Find out who they were and what they created in a lecture that is full of surprises.
Thursday, May 5
4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Room 119
Library of Congress
Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First Street, S.E., Washington, D.C., 20540
Free and open to the public; no tickets are needed.
Information: 202-707-3302
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