Russia's Muslim Heartlands - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Russia's Muslim Heartlands write by Dominic Rubin. This book was released on 2018-05-15. Russia's Muslim Heartlands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Moscow has the largest Muslim population of any city in Europe. In 2015, some 2 million Muslim Muscovites celebrated the opening of the continent's biggest mosque. One quarter of the Soviet population was ethnically Muslim, and today their grandchildren, living in the lands between Bukhara, Kazan and the Caucasus, once again have access to their historical traditions. But they also suffer the effects of civil war, mass migration and political instability. At the highest levels, Islam has been swept up into Russia's broader search for identity, as the old question of eastern versus western takes on new force. Dominic Rubin has spent the last three years interviewing Muslims across Russia, from Sufi shaykhs in Dagestan, new Muslim artists on the Volga and professionals in Kyrgyzstan to guest-workers commuting between Russia and Uzbekistan and Kremlin-sponsored muftis hammering out a new Russian Muslim ideology in Moscow. He discovers their family histories, their faith journeys and their hopes and fears, caught between roles as traditionalist allies in the new Eurasian Russia and as potential traitors in Moscow's war on terror. This story of Islam adapting in a paradoxical landscape, against all odds, brings alive the human reality behind the headlines.
Stalin's Secret Weapon
Stalin's Secret Weapon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stalin's Secret Weapon write by Anthony Rimmington. This book was released on 2018-10-15. Stalin's Secret Weapon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Stalin's Secret Weapon is a gripping account of the early history of the globally significant Soviet biological weapons program, including its key scientists, its secret experimental bases and the role of intelligence specialists, establishing beyond doubt that the infrastructure created by Stalin continues to form the core of Russia's current biological defense network. Anthony Rimmington has enjoyed privileged access to an array of newly available sources and materials, including declassified British Secret Intelligence Service reports. The evidence contained therein has led him to conclude that the program, with its network of dedicated facilities and proving grounds, was far more extensive than previously considered, easily outstripping those of the major Western powers. As Rimmington reveals, many of the USSR's leading infectious disease scientists, including those focused on pneumonic plague, were recruited by the Soviet military and intelligence services. At the dark heart of this bacteriological archipelago lay Stalin, and his involvement is everywhere to be seen, from the promotion of favored researchers to the political repression and execution of the lead biological warfare specialist, Ivan Mikhailovich Velikanov.
Islam in Russia: The Politics of Identity and Security
Islam in Russia: The Politics of Identity and Security - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Islam in Russia: The Politics of Identity and Security write by Shireen Hunter. This book was released on 2016-09-16. Islam in Russia: The Politics of Identity and Security available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This richly detailed study traces the shared history of Russia and Islam in expanding compass - from the Tatar civilization within the Russian heartland, to the conquered territories of the Caucasus and Central Asia, to the larger geopolitical and security context of contemporary Russia on the civilizational divide. The study's distinctive analytical drive stresses political and geopolitical relationships over time and into the very complicated present. Rich with insight, the book is also an incomparable source of factual information about Russia's Muslim populations, religious institutions, political organizations, and ideological movements.
India and the Islamic Heartlands
India and the Islamic Heartlands - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook India and the Islamic Heartlands write by Gagan Sood. This book was released on 2016-03-29. India and the Islamic Heartlands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Gagan D. S. Sood recaptures a vanished and forgotten world that spanned India and the Islamic heartlands in the eighteenth century.
On the Threshold of Eurasia
On the Threshold of Eurasia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On the Threshold of Eurasia write by Leah Feldman. This book was released on 2018-10-15. On the Threshold of Eurasia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On the Threshold of Eurasia explores the idea of the Russian and Soviet "East" as a political, aesthetic, and scientific system of ideas that emerged through a series of intertextual encounters produced by Russians and Turkic Muslims on the imperial periphery amidst the revolutionary transition from 1905 to 1929. Identifying the role of Russian and Soviet Orientalism in shaping the formation of a specifically Eurasian imaginary, Leah Feldman examines connections between avant-garde literary works; Orientalist historical, geographic and linguistic texts; and political essays written by Russian and Azeri Turkic Muslim writers and thinkers. Tracing these engagements and interactions between Russia and the Caucasus, Feldman offers an alternative vision of empire, modernity, and anti-imperialism from the vantage point not of the metropole but from the cosmopolitan centers at the edges of the Russian and later Soviet empires. In this way, On the Threshold of Eurasia illustrates the pivotal impact that the Caucasus (and the Soviet periphery more broadly) had—through the founding of an avant-garde poetics animated by Russian and Arabo-Persian precursors, Islamic metaphysics, and Marxist-Leninist theories of language —on the monumental aesthetic and political shifts of the early twentieth century.
