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Drawing on research in Russian and Uzbekistani archives, the author reconstructs the turbulent history of a Soviet campaign that sought to end the seclusion of Muslim women. He shows it as emblematic of the larger Soviet attempt to bring the proletarian revolution to Muslim Central Asia.Douglas Northrop is the author of 'Veiled Empire: Gender and Power in Stalinist Central Asia', published 2003 under ISBN 9780801439445 and ISBN 0801439442.
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