Kirgistan und die sowjetische Moderne

The Soviet state promised its citizens liberation from the shackles of an outmoded past. Soviet modernism after 1945 even found enthusiastic followers on the Central Asian periphery. But from the 1960s at the latest public criticism grew loud. A small group of intellectuals around Chinghiz Aitmatov criticized the decay of traditions, the repression of Islam and the increasing environmental destruc...