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Kazakh Muslims in the Red Army is the first study of the WWII experience of Soviet Kazakhs. Based on indigenous-language sources, it focuses on the wartime experiences of Kazakh conscripts and the home front as expressed in correspondence. The study emphasizes how Kazakh social structure, religion, and patriotism were expressed and mobilized during the war years.
By focusing on indigenous forms of private correspondence, the book presents an alternative to previous studies focusing on narratives and documentation derived from the Soviet state. It offers an entirely new basis for examining the wartime experiences of Soviet citizens and Soviet Muslims.
By focusing on indigenous forms of private correspondence, the book presents an alternative to previous studies focusing on narratives and documentation derived from the Soviet state. It offers an entirely new basis for examining the wartime experiences of Soviet citizens and Soviet Muslims.
Price: $119.00
Pages: 216
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Publication Date:
07 April 2022
ISBN: 9789004514942
Format: Hardcover
"Kazakh Muslims in the Red Army provides a
stimulating analysis of a culturally specific literary genre as a reflection of the
lives and inner worlds of Kazakh soldiers, and of the role that this poetic genre
played in binding homefront to battlefront."
– Marianne Kamp, in SEER, 100.3 (2022)
– Marianne Kamp, in SEER, 100.3 (2022)
Allen J. Frank, Ph.D. (1994), Indiana University, Bloomington, is an independent scholar. He has published extensively on the Islamic history of Russia and Central Asia, including Gulag Miracles: Sufis and Stalinist Repression in Kazakhstan (Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2019).