‘How will we appear in the eyes of inovertsy and inorodtsy ?’ Nikolai Ostroumov on the image and function of Russian power.
This article offers a close reading of several unpublished manuscripts by the Russian Orientalist, administrator and missionary ideologue Nikolai Petrovich Ostroumov, who spent most of his career in the Turkestan governor-generalship. Ostroumov's violent Islamophobia and close relationship with the...
| Publicado en: | Central Asian Survey Vol. 33; no. 2; pp. 270 - 289 |
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Apr2014
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