Mon., September 21: Non-Territorial Nationalities
Brigid O’Keeffe, New Soviet Gypsies: Nationality , Performance, and Selfhood in the Early Soviet Union, chapter 5 and epilogue
Weds., September 23: Central Asia and Modernization
Adeeb Khalid, “Nationalizing the Revolution in Central Asia: The Transformation of Jadidism, 1917-1920,” A State of Nations, pp. 145-162
Matt Payne, “The Forge of the Kazakh Proletariat? The Turksib, Nativization, and Industrialization during Stalin’s First Five-Year Plan,” A State of Nations, pp. 223-252