Telling Stories of 1991 across Central Asia

• In Event: What does 1991 Mean in Central Asia?: Oral Histories of a Turning Point

Abstract

The author takes a comprehensive view of the wide variety of oral histories recorded by partners in the 1991 project, with subjects from Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan, with attention to the ways that gender, class, relationship to the political sphere, and developments within each nation shape the judgements that today’s Central Asians make about 1991 as an end, a beginning, and a very rough transition.

Author

• Marianne Ruth Kamp, Indiana U Bloomington