TY - BOOK AU - Igmen,Ali F. ED - Project Muse. TI - Speaking Soviet with an accent: culture and power in Kyrgyzstan T2 - Central Eurasia in context SN - 9780822978091 AV - JN6520.M5 I45 2012 U1 - 306.095843/09041 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Pittsburgh, Pa. PB - University of Pittsburgh Press KW - Politics and culture KW - Kyrgyzstan KW - History KW - Popular culture KW - Kyrgyz KW - Cultural assimilation KW - Soviet Union KW - Minorities KW - Government policy KW - Intellectual life KW - 20th century KW - Ethnic relations KW - Cultural policy KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: crafting Kyrgyzness -- Being "Asiatic" subjects of the empire -- The making of Soviet culture in Kyrgyzstan during the 1920s and 1930s -- The emergence of the Soviet houses of culture in Kyrgyzstan -- Celebrations in Soviet Kyrgyzstan during the 1930s -- Soviet theater in Kyrgyzstan in the 1930s -- Self-fashioning Kyrgyzness among women -- Conclusion: speaking Soviet the Kyrgyz way UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780822978091/ ER -